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

Victor Amadeus has disenthralled himself from his filial bondage.

From Prince Eugene and His Times by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

By the light of that fire my friend and I left the town; and when far away we could see its glare, and hear the shouts of a disenthralled people.

From Town and Country; or, life at home and abroad, without and within us by Adams, John S. (John Stowell)

Voluminous and ceaseless still, forever swift descend The waters in their headlong course, then turning, heavenward wend: Now, disenthralled, their essence hath its spirit-shape resumed; Bright, bodiless and pure, its fright to yon empyrean plumed!

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord

This is attributable, possibly, to the fact that my State is not a Border State, properly so called, and that my immediate constituents are not yet disenthralled from the hostile arms of the Rebellion.

From The Great Conspiracy, Volume 4 by Logan, John Alexander