[f. UNMASK v.] One who unmasks.

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1644.  Milton, Areop., 7. The great unmasker of the Trentine Councel.

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1697.  Locke, 2nd Vind. Reason. Chr., 183. The Unmasker smartly convinces me of no small Blunder in these words.

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1833.  Carlyle, Misc. (1840), IV. 404. ‘Far from being modest,’ says this Unmasker, ‘he brags beyond expression.’

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1850.  L. Hunt, Autobiog., v. 98. [They] stood side by side in my imagination as unmaskers of venerable appearance.

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1884.  Manch. Exam., 9 May, 5/5. The first unmasker of the forgery.

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