unmantle

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ mantle.

Verb

unmantle (third-person singular simple present unmantles, present participle unmantling, simple past and past participle unmantled)

  1. To divest of a mantle; to uncover.
    • 1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, ; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
      Meanwhile the earl, for he was of no inferior rank, returned his lady's caress with the most affectionate ardour, but affected to resist when she strove to take his cloak from him. “Nay,” she said, “but I will unmantle you […] ”

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unmantle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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