unenslave

present singular third person unenslaves · participle present unenslaving · participle past unenslaved · past unenslaved · alternative uninslave

1. transitiveTo free (someone) from slavery.

   Try as he might, the fool proves that human effort cannot unenslave him.

   2016, David Whitcomb, Great Invitations, [Greenville, S.C.]: Ambassador International, →ISBN

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   [S]uch Language God promiſed Moſes vvhen he imployed him as his Agent into Egypt, to uninſlave his bondag'd people, ſaying, Go and I vvill be vvith thy mouth, and teach thee vvhat thou ſhalt ſay, Exod[us] 4. 13.

   1650, Jo[hn] Godolphin, “Heavenly Eloquence”, in The Holy Limbeck: Or, A Semicentury of Spiritual Extractions: […], London: […] John Field for Edmund Paxton, […], →OCLC, pages 90–91

   Now whoever heard a person say, "I cannot live without my apple;" […] "I should sink if I did not get my tomato?" No, these are all simple and wholesome, and consequently unenslaving to the appetite, and can be as well supplied by almost any other simple and wholesome production of the vegetable kingdom, […]

   1854 November, Henry S[tephen] Clubb, “Vegetarianism”, in The Water-cure Journal and Herald of Reforms, Devoted to Physiology, Hydropathy, and the Laws of Life, volume XVIII, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Fowlers and Wells, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 105, column 1

   Then the ferocious illuminings of an exiled revelation, / would return rightful to own, to unenslave our embrace again.

   2008, Zack Eswine, “Handle the War Passages in an Age of Terror”, in Preaching to a Post-everything World: Crafting Biblical Sermons that Connect with Our Culture, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, Baker Publishing Group, →ISBN, part 3 (Engage the Cultures of a Post-everything World), page 204

   Synonyms: disenthrall, emancipate, free, unenthrall, unslave, liberate, set free · Antonyms: enslave