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

Then sprang, as if the night found breath anew, A wind whereby the stars were disenthralled ...

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton

The other occurred in 1804, twelve years after the slaves had disenthralled themselves.

From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore

Step by step I saw my constituents march up to my position, and the district at last completely disenthralled by the ceaseless and faithful administration of anti-slavery truth.

From Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by Julian, George W.

It is only by mingling with those outside of our own little specialty that we are disenthralled from the bonds of prejudice.

From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by Hart, John S. (John Seely)