deplication

An unfolding, unplaiting, or untwisting.

Noun

  1. An unfolding, unplaiting, or untwisting.
    • [T]here needeth onely an unfolding and deplication of the inſide of this order, to ſhevv, it is not ſo aſperous and thorny as our Nature apprehendeth it by the firſt glances that light upon it. - 1648, Walter Montagu,...

Origin

From Latin deplicare (“to unfold”), from de- + plicare (“to fold”).