denudation
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To say that any complete denudation of the writer occurs in the successful work is, according to me, a romantic exaggeration.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 22, 2001
Mencken's denudation of America's Sunday-go-to-meeting image was carried out with wit and a once admired prose style.
From Time Magazine Archive
The preservation of the forests is primarily for the protection of the water supply, and this is not possible through the denudation of the lands.
From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress
For example, in many coal regions the deposits have been conserved in some districts in the synclines or “basins,” while they have been removed by denudation from the uplifted anticlines in others.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
It is also in this respect preferable to denudation with a brush.
From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by C. V. Riley
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