unknits

But they are examples -- closely and no doubt intentionally juxtaposed -- in two different kinds, both of them exceptionally difficult and dangerous: the story of more or less ordinary life, with only a few suggestions of anything else, which resolves itself into horrible tragedy; and the story, again of ordinary life, with a tragic suggestion in the middle, which unknits itself into pure comedy at the end.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

I ■ ■ unknits the joints, and (inews racks, Thorn, i: 266

The Works of the English Poets 1779