Now rare. [UN-2 9.] trans. To lay bare, to expose to view. (Cf. BARE v.)
1530. Palsgr., 766/1. I unbare a thyng, je desnue. Ibid. Sythe I se the vysage, it is ynough, I wyll unbare nothing else.
1598. Tofte, Alba (1880), 108. Because thou seest myselfe with Love I cloathe, Another shall despoyle me and vnbare.
1615. Sylvester, Job Triumphant, II. 204. Destruction’s Sword shall hunt him every hower, Consume his Sinews, and un-bare his Skin.
1630. Lord, Banians, Ep. Ded. A 2 b. Not unbaring the roote of their guilt and criminalitie.
1650. H. More, Observ., in Enthus. Tri., etc. (1656), 108. He has not done that which is impossible to doe, unbare to us the very substance of the Form.
1858. Farrar, Eric, II. ii. The least boys seemed the greatest proficients in unbaring, without a blush, its hideous ugliness.
Hence Unbared ppl. a., Unbaring vbl. sb.
1585. Q. Eliz., in Motley, Netherl. (1868), I. vi. 340. This is no small succour, and no little unbaring of this realm of mine.
a. 1665. J. Goodwin, Filled w. the Spirit (1867), 203. When there is an unbared arm of God, then the work is said to be done from heaven.
1879. Farrar, St. Paul (1883), 418. The unbared palpitations of his inmost being.
