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open (v.)
announce, communicate, divulge
Cym V.v.42[Cornelius to Cymbeline, of the Queen's dying revelation] but she spoke it dying, I would not / Believe her lips in opening it
E3 II.ii.14[Derby to Audley, of the news] I have not yet found time to open them
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