disenthralled

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In Colgan’s time, then, the fairy superstition had passed from the upper classes, gradually disenthralled of it by the influence of Christianity to the common people, among whom it is still rife.

From The Irish Fairy Book by Various

The necessity of providing for his little living family had quite disenthralled Monsieur C—— from any weakly sentimentality in regard to his little dead family.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various

I have been to England, and I saw some of your redeemed, regenerated, disenthralled people—I saw features on women's faces that haunted me afterward in my dreams.

From Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is by Eastman, Mary H. (Mary Henderson)

From the hill-tops and the valleys the cry of a disenthralled people went upward, like the sound of many waters: 'Glory to God!

From The Freedmen's Book by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

Essences of disenthralled minds meet here and revel.

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri