disenthralled

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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

There was more evidence against her than any tried at Salem; but the common mind disenthralled of the hideous delusion asserted itself, through the jury by a verdict of acquittal.

From The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad by Carter, F. A. (Freeland A.)

But by the time that he has just disenthralled himself, he is removed, and another appointed in his place, and the work has to commence de novo.

From Diary in America, Series Two by Marryat, Frederick

But Meyerbeer resolutely disenthralled himself from what he appeared to have regarded as trammels, and followed out an ambition to be a cosmopolitan composer.

From Great Italian and French Composers by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)

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