ppl. a. [UN-1 8, or f. UNVEIL v.] Not covered with, free or freed from, a veil.
1606. N. B[axter], Sydney’s Ourania, E 3 b. Leauing faire Tellus with vnuailed face, Drie and vnmantled.
1659. W. Chamberlayne, Pharon., II. ii. 236. The unveiled face of War Looks big with horror. Ibid., III. v. 336. He dares Affront unveiled report.
1717. Lady M. W. Montagu, Lett. to Pope, 1 April. Their wives and daughters … go unveiled.
1801. Southey, Thalaba, VI. xxviii. Unveil’d women bade the advancing youth Come merry-make with them!
1825. Scott, Talism., vi. Richard’s unveiled contempt for his brother sovereigns.
1890. J. Pulsford, Loyalty to Christ, I. 213. His higher and unveiled teaching belongs only to His disciples.
Hence Unveiledly adv.; Unveiledness.
1661. Boyle, Physiol. Ess. (1669), 37. Not yet knowing … what use you will make of what has been unveiledly communicated to you.
1902. R. C. Moberly, Christ our Life, xxi. 178. This unveiledness of face; this reflecting, as a mirror, of the being of God.
