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disimprison

American

[dis-im-priz-uhn] / ˌdɪs ɪmˈprɪz ən /

verb (used with object)

to release from imprisonment.

Other Word Forms

disimprisonment

noun

Etymology

Origin of disimprison

First recorded in 1605–15; dis- ¹ + imprison

Example Sentences

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He opens this collection with a brief introduction, explaining that he’d planned to use a quote from Samuel Taylor Coleridge as his epigraph, something about imagination possessing “the power to disimprison the soul of fact.”

From Slate • Oct. 23, 2017

Let us be swift, in Friedrich's own manner; and try to disimprison the small portions of essential!

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Carlyle, Thomas

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