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unˈburden, unˈburthen, v.
[un-2 4 b. Cf. G. entbürden.]
1. trans. To unload; to free from a load or burden. Chiefly fig., to relieve (a person, the mind, etc.) by the removal or disclosure of something. Freq. const. of.
α1538Elyot Addit., Exonero, -rare, to discharge or vnburdeyn. 1568Gismond of Salerne i. ii. 34, I may perhappes devise some way to be unburdened of my life. 1622S. Ward Life of Faith in Death (1627) 105 The inner man ages not,..but rather lifts vp the head,..and expects to be unburdened. 1634Sir T. Hawkins Pol. Observ. 11 Tiberius by him unburdened from the greater toyles of Empire,..would not so soone..precipitate him. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xii, I would fain sing to unburden it of some of its joy. 1846A. Marsh Father Darcy II. xi. 204 She felt that irresistible necessity to unburden her heart. 1858Sears Athan. ii. iii. 194 They unburden their minds to each other.
βa1595Southwell Hundred Medit. (1873) 231 Thou..commandest us to love to unburthen us of the heavy weight and griefs that we suffer. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 22 b/2 Ther ensueth an effluxion of bloode, because that parte may be therof released and vnburthened. 1641Chas. I Commons Remonstr. Wks. 1662 II. 68 We desire to unburthen the Consciences of men of needless and superstitious Ceremonies. 1671H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 406 If I had not unburthened my Boat, I had been cast away together with my Boat, passengers, and fraught. 1777Sheridan Sch. Scand. iv. iii, There is a subject, my dear Friend, on which I wish to unburthen my Mind to you. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 17 The glutton..unburthens his stomach by squeezing himself between two close-standing trees. 1820Shelley Liberty xix, As summer clouds dissolve, unburthened of their rain. 1875G. J. Whyte-Melville Katerfelto iv. 31 He unburthened his mind while watching Waif's stealthy movements.
b. refl.
1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 67 Fame..vnburdened hir selfe of hir secrets in the presence of yong Pleusidippus. 1600Hakluyt Voy. III. 81 It is not possible that so great course of floods..can be digested here without vnburdening themselues into some open Sea beyond this place. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 54 A violent storme of raine vnburthened it selfe. 1674tr. Scheffer's Lapland xxxiv. 146 Several less rivers unburdening themselves at last into the Bothnick sea. 1859J. Lang Wand. India 400 A trooper in the dragoons..thus unburthened himself. 1862Trollope Orley F. xxxi, She thought to herself that she would..then unburthen herself of the whole story.
2. To cast off, get rid of, discharge, after the manner of a burden; to disclose, reveal.
a1593Marlowe & Nashe Dido v. i, The Sunne from Egypt shall rich odors bring, Wherewith his burning beames..Shall here vnburden their exhaled sweetes. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. i. i. 133 From your loue I haue a warrantie To vnburthen all my plots and purposes. 1830Lytton P. Clifford iv, All that rage which it was necessary for her comfort that she should unburthen somewhere. 1876E. Mellor Priesth. viii. 372 There is, at times, a great relief in unburdening to a friend the sins and sorrows of one's life.
Hence unˈburdening vbl. n.; unˈburdenment.
1550Thomas Ital. Dict., Scaricamento, a dischardge or vnburdenyng. 1848Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton ii, The unburdening of her fears and thoughts to her friend. 1892Mrs. H. Ward David Grieve ii. vii, A moment of unburdenment, of intimacy. 1902Fortn. Rev. June 1048 The unburdening of sins is generally a more irksome task. |