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

It is also in this respect preferable to denudation with a brush.

From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Riley, C. V.

It is probable that the extent of this process of denudation determines the severity or mildness of the attack....

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Eminences which have been isolated by denudation from the main mass of the formations of which they originally formed part are known as “outliers” or “hills of circumdenudation.”

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