disenthralv.
transitive. To set free from enthralment or bondage; to liberate from thraldom.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > from slavery
manumitc1455
manumise1523
enfranchise1531
enfranch1581
unthrallc1595
unslavea1618
disenthral1636
unenslave1644
disenslave1649
1636 G. Sandys Paraphr. Psalmes David lv God my soul shall disenthral.
1673 J. Milton Psalm IV in Poems (new ed.) 133 In straights and in distress Thou didst me disinthrall And set at large.
1689 W. Walker tr. H. Languet Vindiciæ contra Tyrannos (new ed.) 149 In seeking freedom from Tyranny, he..was the principal Instrument to dis-inthrall them.
1847 J. Martineau Endeavours Christian Life II. vii. 109 Reverence which disenthrals the mind from lower passions.
Derivatives
disenˈthralled adj.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [adjective] > liberated > from slavery
freed1579
libertine1600
manumitted1614
enfrancheda1616
manumised1627
disenslaved1681
emancipate1785
disenthralled1848
recaptive1856
1848 R. I. Wilberforce Incarnation (1852) xiii. 363 Only through union with our disenthralled representative.
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