disembosom

English

Etymology

Verb

disembosom (third-person singular simple present disembosoms, present participle disembosoming, simple past and past participle disembosomed)

(archaic) To separate from the bosom.
- 1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC:
  Who , disembosom'd from the Father, bows
To disburden oneself of a secret.

References

“disembossom”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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