unenthrall

present singular third person unenthralls · participle present unenthralling · participle past unenthralled · past unenthralled

1. literal or figurativeSynonym of unenslave.

   As I drove, I wrote a new to-do plan in my head. The first item was easy. Tell Tatiana about Max. The second—figure out how to unenthrall Jude—was where I got stuck. As in quicksand stuck.

   2023, Deborah Wilde, chapter 28, in Magic After Midlife Collection: Books 1-3: A Humorous Paranormal Women's Fiction, Te Da Media, →ISBN

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   […] though sometimes I felt I was. They dispelled my nonage, they showed me how liberating the play of lighter desire can be, how exquisitely and surely it can enthrall and unenthrall spirit and mind […]

   1935, Louis Marlow [Louis Wilkinson], Fool's Quarter Day, Faber and Faber, page 30

   In that first version I was trying to unenthrall myself from Foucault and Deleuze—because of the semanalyse people, turning all that into a kind of American graffiti, I think. I had spoken of sati, under Lata Mani's influence. But I had not yet written of Bhubaneswari's message.

   2010, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “In response: looking back, looking forward”, in Can the Subaltern Speak? Reflections on the History of an Idea, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 227

   Synonyms: disenthrall, unenslave