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Webster 1828 Edition

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Unfolding; spreading.

unfurling

unfurling ‎(plural unfurlings)

The act by which something is unfurled.
- 1849, Christopher Wordsworth, Lectures on the Apocalypse (page 466)
  Are there not here some sounds of a gathering together of armies, some blasts of the trumpets of war, some unfurlings of hostile banners, some noise of chariots and tramplings of horses rushing to the battle?