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

This was the poem which gushed with spontaneosity from my disenthralled mind: Come back, come back, from the buffalo raid!

From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

New wine must not be put in old bottles; nor must the motions of disenthralled passion be confined in vessels worn by the uses of daily life.

From An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times by Scott, Fred Newton

The sword alternately enslaved and disenthralled Thebes and Athens, Sparta, Syracuse, and Corinth.

From The American Union Speaker by Philbrick, John D. (John Dudley)

Commerce and agriculture, disenthralled by the influences of free institutions, will cause the new empire to spring into life, full armed, like Minerva from the brain of Jupiter.

From Handbook to the new Gold-fields by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)