unclothe
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With some actors, words clothe feelings; with Jones, feelings unclothe words so that joy, rage, wonder and sadness radiate nakedly through the theater.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other men, again, possibly unclothe themselves of some practices, but they put on new clothing, they reform some passages for fear of censure, or shame, or such like.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
This with him was to unclothe himself of his true strength.
From Robert Burns by Shairp, John Campbell
Bethink yourself how love Fared in us twain, what either did; Shall I unclothe my soul thereof?
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
We uncover, indeed we unclothe an ugly, pot-bellied, pale-orange larva.
From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
The responsibility of light beckons, unclothes the familiar objects and not so familiar ones.
From Unmanned by Oliver, Stephen
In the course of the ceremony the priest unclothes the babe and asks the godfather, “What seeks the child?”
From Armenian Legends and Festivals by Boettiger, Louis A.
It is clothed and unclothed; decorated and distorted; idealized, stylized, politicized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
Vanos said the commonly-used wet-bulb temperature for human survivability assumes the person is indoors or shaded, unclothed, completely sedentary, fully heat acclimatized and of an "average size."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023
Avedon's picture features the young man, his torso unclothed, eyes closed, arms back, and chin raised.
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2023
He was unclothed, and had been wrapped in a flannel blanket, according to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
She lets the water run in the shower, turns up the thermostat to compensate for the terrible moment when she will have to step onto the mat on the bathroom floor, unclothed.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
As for Britain, clad or unclad, entry into the Common Market was out of the question, despite his "exceptional esteem, attachment and respect" for the British people.
From Time Magazine Archive
I flung the warm shawl over her, and drew the edges tight round her neck, for I dreaded lest she should get some deadly chill from the night air, unclad as she was.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
“I hide myself in the depths of the forest, live on wild animals and roots, and go unclad as any beast of the field.”
From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Spence, Lewis
The sacred and unfleshly calling of a bishop threw a protecting mantle over the modest shoulders of his wife and daughters; and these did not go unclad.
From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Housman, Laurence
No clothing hid their dusky, copper-colored skins, of a hue unknown to their visitors, and they looked like the unclad tenants of some new paradise.
From Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III by Morris, Charles
Either the Spirit unclothing Unto new living for ever,— Or the dread penalty—never!
From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar
Why am I to begin with taking up a position not my own, and unclothing my mind of that large outfit of existing thoughts, principles, likings, desires, and hopes, which make me what I am?
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry
He looked at such unclothing in his own case as possible, but was confident that it would not happen so.
From The State of the Blessed Dead by Alford, Henry
