Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of opening or manifesting; open declaration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
opening ,disclosing , ormanifesting ; opendeclaration .
Etymologies
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Latin patefactio, from patefacere to open; patere to lie open + facere to make.
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