Unmasked

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1590.  Greene, Never too late (1600), 14. The maids in Rome durst not looke at Venus Temple till they were thirtie, nor went they vnmasked till they were married.

1628.  Feltham, Resolves, II. viii. 18. Diseased eyes indure not an vnmasked Sunne.

1633[?].  H[enry] R[eynolds], Mythomystes, A 3, in Crit. Ess. 17th C. (1908), 142. Appertaining to the care of who desires to lay downe a naked & vnmasked Trueth.

1679.  in Lond. Gaz., No. 1406/1. The unmasked Boldness of such as durst openly … assemble themselves together, to Kill … the Primate.

1740.  H. Walpole, Corr. (1820), I. 45. I have found a little unmasqued moment to write to you.

1784.  Cowper, Task, II. 695. They … in th’ end, disclose a face That would have shock’d credulity herself, Unmask’d.

1811.  Scott, Don Roderick, II. xli. He saw her hideous face, and loved the fiend unmask’d.

1855.  Pusey, Doctr. Real Presence, 717. An universal suppression of the truths … and the unmasked substitution of falsehood.