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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unfetter.

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Examples

  • May Ishtar, the goddess of fighting and war, who unfetters my weapons, my gracious protecting spirit, who loveth my dominion, curse his kingdom in her angry heart; in her great wrath, change his grace into evil, and shatter his weapons on the place of fighting and war.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • And that government is really the best which unfetters its spiritual influence, and encourages it; and not that government which seeks to perpetuate its corrupt and worldly institutions.

    Beacon Lights of History John Lord 1852

  • When at last she unfetters her grief, like a modern Andromache, it's heart-rending.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed MARTIN MORROW 2011

  • It is then that the spirit of peace settles upon the heart, unfetters the thoughts and elevates the soul to the Creator.

    Thaddeus of Warsaw Jane Porter 1813

  • And long the sip that warms throat and knees, unfetters.

    SHARKFORUM: OPINION WITH TEETH Simone Muench 2010

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