unhele

English

Etymology

Old English unhelan, corresponding to un- +‎ hele.

Verb

unhele (third-person singular simple present unheles, present participle unheling, simple past and past participle unheled)

(obsolete) To uncover, to reveal.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XII:
  Then suddeinly both would themselues vnhele, / And th'amarous sweet spoiles to greedy eyes reuele.

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