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Webster 1913 Edition


Unbosom

Un-bos′om

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Unbosomed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Unbosoming
.]
[1st pref.
un-
+
bosom
.]
To disclose freely; to reveal in confidence, as secrets; to confess; – often used reflexively;
as, to
unbosom
one’s self
.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unbosom

UNBOSOM

,
Verb.
T.
s as z.
1.
To disclose freely one's secret opinions or feelings.
2.
To reveal in confidence.

Definition 2024


unbosom

unbosom

English

Verb

unbosom (third-person singular simple present unbosoms, present participle unbosoming, simple past and past participle unbosomed)

  1. (archaic) To tell someone about one's troubles, and thus obtain relief.
    • 1594, Shakespeare, Willam, Love's Labour's Lost, act V, scene 2, line 2040:
      Their several counsels they unbosom shall
      To loves mistook, and so be mock'd withal
      Upon the next occasion that we meet,
      With visages displayed, to talk and greet.
    • 1953, Beckett, Samuel, Watt, Paris: Olympia Press, OL 16635912M:
      Watt was not the first to whom Mr Graves had unbosomed himself, in this connexion. For he had unbosomed himself to Arsene, many years before...
  2. (archaic) To confess a misdeed.

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