Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To free from bondage or an enslaved condition.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall.

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  • verb obsolete To free from slavery.

Etymologies

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dis- +‎ enslave

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Examples

  • And by so doing, he shall disenslave and redeem his soul from a captivity to the things he enjoys, and so make himself lord, as well as possessor of what he has.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

  • Likewise, let him bear himself above that sordid and low thing, that utter contradiction to all greatness of mind, covetousness; let him disenslave himself from the pelf of the world, from that amor sceleratus habendi; for all love has something of blindness at tending it; but the love of money especially.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823

  • They fancied nothing but triumphs and trophies, and all the nations of the earth licking the dust before them under the victorious conduct of their Messiah: they expected such an one as should disenslave them from the Roman yoke; make the senate stoop to their sanhedrim; and the capitol do homage to their temple.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823

  • But all this long and miraculous scene of transactions was to redeem poor mortal men from the beloved bonds and shackles of their sins, to disenslave them from the tyranny of ruling corruptions; to dispossess the usurper, and to introduce the kingdom of God, by setting it up first in men's minds; to recover all their faculties to the liberty of innocence and purity; and so, in a word, to restore men both to God and to themselves.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

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