disenthral
Americanverb (used with object)
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Thee, gentle lady, did he disenthral: Ye shall for ever live and love, for all Thy tears are flowing.–
From Endymion A Poetic Romance by John Keats
Consider, too, how a holiday of action would disenthral the writer from the pettiness of cliques and coteries, with their pedantic atmosphere and false perspectives.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
Here he lurked until the brilliant attempt was made to disenthral his country by Mexia, in 1838.
Or what good end of these?" she said; "Is there no God or end at all, Nor reason with unreason weighed, Nor force to disenthral Weak feet that fall?
From Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne
We must disenthral ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
From Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections) by Abraham Lincoln
It is only by mingling with those outside of our own little specialty that we are disenthralled from the bonds of prejudice.
From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John S. (John Seely) Hart
Men and women danced for joy in the streets, and the song of liberation burst from the lips of the disenthralled multitude.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
Then sprang, as if the night found breath anew, A wind whereby the stars were disenthralled ...
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Clark Ashton Smith
From the hill-tops and the valleys the cry of a disenthralled people went upward, like the sound of many waters: 'Glory to God!
From The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child
And, Sir, when these states, thus newly disenthralled and emancipated, assume the tone and bear the port of independence, what language and what ideas do we find associated with their newly acquired liberty?
From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Daniel Webster
Clinton must have realized that, in a different sense and a different era, America faces the task of disenthralling itself, of shaking off the Hollywood stardust and facing facts.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was not only much more convenient than the old dress, but the change exerted a great influence in disenthralling the minds of the men from the influence of old ideas and associations.
From Peter the Great by Jacob Abbott
Every humane consideration clusters to the policy of disenthralling the colored man, and of making him a being of power.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 by Various
It is said that he procured a solemn exorcism to be performed, in the hope of disenthralling and recovering his daughter.
From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 2 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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