[f. UNCLOSE v.] That unclose(s); opening.

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1792.  J. Barlow, Conspir. Kings, 159. The hour is come, the world’s unclosing eyes Discern with rapture where its wisdom lies.

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1831.  T. L. Peacock, Crotchet Castle, iv. The Captain anxiously watched the unclosing door for the form of his beloved.

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1894.  Augusta Webster, Mother & Daughter (1895), 28.

        To love her as to-day is so great bliss
  I needs must think of morrows almost loth,
  Morrows wherein the flower’s unclosing growth
Shall make my darling other than she is.

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