[f. UNRAVEL v.] The process of unravelling.

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1776.  Mickle, Camoens’ Lusiad, Introd. 131. Collateral Episodes … assist … to facilitate and produce the Unravelment, or Catastrophe.

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1779.  Hamilton, Wks. (1886), VII. 586. The unravelment of the plot.

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1835.  Court Mag., VI. 244/1. I felt it as the unravelment of fate.

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1880.  Burton, Reign Q. Anne, II. 319. His tedious work with the unravelment of all these difficulties.

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