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unprison

[uhn-priz-uhn]

verb (used with object)

  1. to release from prison.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of unprison1

1350–1400; Middle English unprisonen; un- 2, prison
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Example Sentences

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Deborah Jiang-Stein is the author of the memoir “Prison Baby” and founder of the unPrison Project.

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Unprison, un-priz′n, v.t. to release from prison.

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Nor false their faith, nor like the fleeting wind, Their spirits fled! for theirs the unprison'd mind, No tyrant-chains, no bonds of earth and time, Could hold from truth and freedom's heights sublime— From that bright heaven of science, whence they shed Fresh glory o'er man's cause for which they bled.

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Down and still downward through the dusky green She bore her treasure, with a face too nigh To mark how life was alter'd in its mien, Or how the light grew torpid in his eye, Or how his pearly breath, unprison'd there, Flew up to join the universal air.

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