denudation

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To say that any complete denudation of the writer occurs in the successful work is, according to me, a romantic exaggeration.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 22, 2001

Mencken's denudation of America's Sunday-go-to-meeting image was carried out with wit and a once admired prose style.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such a chain may be the result of one colossal disturbance; but those of high geological antiquity usually furnish proofs of successive uplifts with more or less intervening denudation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

The river having been closed with ice within the last two days, we crossed it this afternoon to visit the two pyramidal monuments of geological denudation which mark the limestone range of the opposite shore.

From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

Fissures filled in this manner from below, as denudation progresses, become exposed at the surface and reconcentration through the influence of disintegration and decay, and of solution and redeposition by descending water takes place.

From North America by Russell, Israel C. (Cook)