unravelment

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The plot is drawn with consummate skill—not in the sense of a Gaborian-like unravelment of mystery, but in its organic, natural, inevitable development, and in the abiding interest of its evolution.

From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton)

"What is puzzling you, Miss Kellett?" broke in Hankes; "I wish I could be of any assistance to its unravelment."

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James

We must see how far he applied this principle successfully to the unravelment of the great problems of philosophy.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

I am, as you may all know, a writer of stories which depend for their success upon the creation and unravelment of criminological mysteries.

From The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Wallace, Edgar

Now the very last thing that Wagner does is to sweat blood over the plot; and on this and the unravelment he certainly spends the smallest possible amount of energy.

From The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm