unthrallv.
transitive. To emancipate, set free.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > from slavery
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c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxviii. 20 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 189 God answere gaue me, when I called, And me vnlarging [MSS B, K, χ: enlarging], me vnthralled.
1650 H. B. To Author in T. Vaughan Anima Magica sig. E4 But who from envies sordid mire Is washt,..a light shall see, (unthral'd from errors Sophistry).
1652 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Exact Hist. Late Revol. Naples (new ed.) ii. 28 Thou chopst his neck, who thy head did unthral.
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