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unˈfetter, v.
[un-2 4 b. Cf. G. entfesseln.]
To free from fetters; to remove the fetters from.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. iii. 134 Heo ȝeueþ þe Iayler Gold and grotes..To vn-Fetere þe False. c1400Gamelyn 613 The shirreue unfetered him right sone anone. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2399 To prison he gooth; he gette no bettre, Til his mainpernour his arrest vnfettre. 1485Caxton Paris & V. (1868) 81 He sayd to the freres that they shold unfeter the doulphyn. 1598Florio, Scatenare, to vnchaine, to vnfetter, to vnshakle. 1611Cotgr., Destraver, to vnshackle, vngyue, vnfetter. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xxvii, Captain Oakum..ordered the fellow to be unfettered. 1799Coleridge Devil's Thoughts xi, He saw the same Turnkey unfetter a man, With but little expedition.
b. In fig. contexts or uses.
c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 1216 She..gan hire herte vnfettre Out of disdaygns prison but a lyte. a1470Harding Chron. cxi. vii, Fyftye batayls and syx he smote, Somtyme the worse, and somtyme had the better;..Lyke as fortune his cause leste vnfeter. 1627Sanderson Serm. I. 280 As for whatsoever other hank thou mayst think thou hast over him,..he can..easily unfetter himself from them all. 1671Woodhead St. Teresa i. xx. 136 Whom she desires to see unfettered from the prison of this life. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. 345 The transcendent power of parliament is called in..to unfetter an estate. 1830Herschel Study Nat. Phil. 8 It unfetters the mind from prejudices of every kind. c1860Faber Hymn, Desire of God v, And the langour of love captive hearts can unfetter.
Hence unˈfettering vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1653Binning Serm. (1845) 189 To bring along a Deliverer unto your spirits, for the..unfettering of them from the chains of fleshly lusts. 1824L. M. Hawkins Mem., etc. I. 257 Too much of the spirit of John Knox, or something equally unfettering. 1854J. B. Paton in Life iii. (1914) 33 Those words which should for ever consecrate us to His unfettering service. |