vbl. sb. [f. as prec.] The action of divesting of a mask. Chiefly fig.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. xxiii. Her unmasking of Cecropias fruitlesse sophistrie.
1602. J. H[all] (title), The Unmasking of the Politique Atheist.
1641. Milton, Reform., I. 8. The unmasking of Hypocrites.
1741. Richardson, Pamela, IV. 233. Because of her Freedoms when mask’d; her Unmasking, and her Handkerchief.
1861. Trench, Comm. Ep. Churches Asia, 87. An unmasking of them that said they were Apostles and were not.
1895. Athenæum, 17 Aug., 218/3. Mr. Meredith’s pitiless unmaskings of folly.
