Unfolding
[ʌn'fold]
Definition
(noun.) a developmental process; 'the flowering of antebellum culture'.
Edited by Julia--From WordNet
Examples
- Life at any stage short of attainment of this goal is merely an unfolding toward it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He sends--I really beg your pardon--he sends, says Sir Leicester, selecting the letter and unfolding it, a message to you. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The risk would remain even with close knowledge of Lydgate's character; for character too is a process and an unfolding. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The teaching of history, as we are unfolding it in this book, is strictly in accordance with this teaching of Buddha. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The control is from behind, from the past, instead of, as in the unfolding conception, in the ultimate goal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Come, Peggy, said Jo, unfolding herself like an animated puzzle. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Development is conceived not as continuous growing, but as the unfolding of latent powers toward a definite goal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Contrast with that the tedious unfolding of a rolled manuscript. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- According to it, education is neither a process of unfolding from within nor is it a training of faculties resident in mind itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Unfolding it, I found that it consisted of three pages torn from his note-book and addressed to me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- If what is desired is obtained, that is evidence that the child is unfolding properly. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- She's unfolding it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The notion that education is an unfolding from within appears to have more likeness to the conception of growth which has been set forth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In the air, the unfolding leaves of a copper-beech were blood-red. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Otherwise we should be compelled to regard any and every manifestation of the child as an unfolding from within, and hence sacred. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typist: Robinson