ungyvev.
transitive. To free from gyves or fetters. Also figurative.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > free from restraint
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unshackle1611
to let out1613
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loosen1645
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > from confinement > free from specific type of bonds
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1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. vi. sig. Pviiv He..commaunded hym to be vngyued and sette at libertie.
1569 T. Newton tr. Cicero Worthye Bk. Olde Age 4 I haue knowen a great maignie..who were well pleased to be ungiued, loosed, and deliuered out of the yoke of their sensuall lustes.
1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God viii. viii. 310 Our intellect beeing vngiued from the body, if it want the light of Gods truth, it must needes lament and languish.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. ix. 67/2 My mind's eyes were now unsealed, and its hands ungyved.
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