unleashing

unleashing (plural unleashings)

1. The act by which something is unleashed.
   • 1917 October, “Concerning the Drama”, in Albert Shaw, editor, The American Review of Reviews, New York, N.Y.: The Review of Reviews Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, “The New Books” section, page 444, column 2:

     His great power consists in his building plays not upon the broad basis of general and tested character values, but upon the psychology of our occasional lapses away from the average, our hidden emotional unleashings, sudden angers and momentary caprices.

   • 1929 January, John W. Johnson, “Balthasar Huebmaier and Baptist Historic Commitments”, in Shirley Jackson Case, editor, The Journal of Religion, volume IX, number 1, Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59:

     We can see in the dozen years between 1517 and the Protestation of the second diet in Speier in 1529 the mighty outwellings of a religious movement comparable only to the unleashings of the dogs of war and the releasing of religious, humanitarian, national and international idealisms, fanaticisms, and new tyrannies in the dozen years or so since 1914.

   • 2013 April, Paul Argentini, chapter 15, in A Matter of Love in Da Bronx: A Novel: A 1950’s Diary, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Sunbury Press, →ISBN, page 178:

     How now I can understand the inconceivable before where worlds have been gained or lost in no more than a kiss, if it be a kiss such as this. I feel the overfloodings of our worlds, the unleashings of trapped winds and the release of stormclouded sunshine.

unleashing

1. present participle and gerund of unleash