Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Unfolding; development.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded.
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- noun
unfolding
Etymologies
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Examples
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No only do you develop the existing senses by such practice and use, _but you help in the unfoldment of the latent powers and senses that are striving for unfoldment_.
A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga William Walker Atkinson 1897
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"unfoldment" -- not a new creation or enlargement from outside, but rather an unfoldment outward from within.
A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga William Walker Atkinson 1897
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Then follows a series of embodiments, or incarnations, from lower to higher, in which occurs an evolution or "unfoldment" of the nature of the soul, in which it rises to higher and higher planes of being, until finally, after æons of time, it enters in Union with the Divine Nirvana and
Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect William Walker Atkinson 1897
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"unfoldment" or "unwrapping" of the soul from its confining sheaths, one by one.
Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect William Walker Atkinson 1897
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In fact, what most of them have said is that true personal growth or spiritual unfoldment is about letting go of that which you really aren't, rather than adding a bunch of stuff to you.
Lee Stranahan: Why We Should Say No to Self-Improvement : My Interview with Derek Rydall Lee Stranahan 2011
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In fact, what most of them have said is that true personal growth or spiritual unfoldment is about letting go of that which you really aren't, rather than adding a bunch of stuff to you.
Lee Stranahan: Why We Should Say No to Self-Improvement : My Interview with Derek Rydall Lee Stranahan 2011
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This evolutionary wonder is the result of millions of years of both delicate and quantum unfoldment, being blasted to smithereens by mindless, self-interested, unconscious-of-the-whole, fear-based actions of the few.
Mitchell J. Rabin: A Call to Consciousness Louder Than Ever Before 2012 Mitchell J. Rabin 2011
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This evolutionary wonder is the result of millions of years of both delicate and quantum unfoldment, being blasted to smithereens by mindless, self-interested, unconscious-of-the-whole, fear-based actions of the few.
Mitchell J. Rabin: A Call to Consciousness Louder Than Ever Before 2012 Mitchell J. Rabin 2011
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Considering all the information and misinformation published over the years about the Civil War, its causes, and the hows and whys of its unfoldment, it will be a long time before all is sorted and the Truth is arrived at in a way that is clear to thinking people.
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What emerges is also the sense that we must ever leap forward with Faith, Trust and Openness into the mystery and the unknownness of the newness that will ever take shape in the unfoldment of our expression and coming together, piece by piece and moment to moment.
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