unfettering

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The Greeks could cut away the supporting mass of stone around the legs, unfettering their self-images.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nor was this unfettering of instinct a symbolical act; for it to be so, man must have stood over against nature as an intellectual being, mirroring and transforming her acts by his own deeds.

From The Evolution of Love by Schleussner, Ellie

It is due to the unfettering of the human mind, to the laying off of much of the mediaeval superstition which in the past ages has blighted mankind.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

So we must be very grateful to fashion for unfettering that three-fourths and communicating self-confidence and the power of cheerful compromise to those who feel themselves bound to each other by its law.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Miss Hoag took it up, her hand already slowly and tiredly at the business of unfettering herself of the monstrous red silk.

From Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Hurst, Fannie