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unˈloosen, v.
[un-2 9.]
trans. = unloose v.
c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 252 There xul ȝe ffyndyn..An asse tyed... Unlosne þat asse, and brynge it to me. 1586D. Rowland Lazarillo ii. (1672) M 6, A Cord fastened about my foot, which..was tied to a great Chest..which though I could, I would not unloosen. 1610Markham Masterp. ii. xlix. 294 Forget not..to vnloosen the list and to take it away. 1650Earl of Monmouth tr. Senault's Man bec. Guilty 335 God..would..teach us that accidents might be unloosened from their substance. 1782V. Knox Ess. ii. I. 11 Fix them [sc. religious principles] deeply in your bosom, and let them go with you unloosened and unaltered to the grave. c1845J. T. Goodsir in Ch. Scot. Pulpit I. 248 Whose power..unloosened the dumb tongue of conscience. 1863P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 189 Ankle chains..riveted together,..never to be unloosened night nor day.
Hence unˈloosening vbl. n.
1867E. S. Purcell in Ess. Relig. & Lit. Ser. ii. 476 Everything tends..to the unloosening of all bonds between society and the Church. |