releasedadj.
/rᵻˈliːst/, U.S. /rəˈlist/ That has been released (in various senses); spec. (a) revoked or remitted (now chiefly Law); (b) set free or made available (also with modifying adverb) (now the commonest sense).
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [adjective] > liberated
well-deliveredc1515
franchised1576
enfranchised1579
released1587
liberate1598
affranchised1603
enlarged1645
emancipated1776
liberated1781
society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [adjective] > released from prison
unprisoned1559
released1774
unimprisoning1820
1587 M. Grove Most Famous Hist. Pelops & Hippodamia sig. Cviii Evry wight betakes him selfe, to bed of releast payne.
1651 T. Hobbes De Cive ix. §8 The enfranchised son, or released servant, doe now stand in lesse fear of their Lord and Father, being deprived of his..power over them.
1774 J. Marriott Plan Code of Laws for Quebec 66 A released prisoner returns back to society a better and more useful subject than when he entered his cell.
1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders 25 St. Benedict..beheld the released soul of his sister..flying towards Heaven.
1894 Times 27 Aug. 4 Dr. Kenny, one of the recently-released suspects, presided.
1905 Times 10 June 5 It is not only the debtor who is affected by a released debt being regarded as continuing.
1939 Fortune Nov. 56/1 Impelled by gravity, the released car rolls downgrade.
1973 Gramophone Sept. 555/3 Newly released pieces like Now is the month of maying.
2006 New Scientist 29 July 6/4 Prendergast's team studied released convicts in San Diego who had been treated in a prison therapeutic community.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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