Unmanacle

v. [UN-² 4 b.] trans. To free from manacles. Also fig.

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1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, II. (Arb.), 48. This sayd, my yooncker … Too stars vp mounting both his hands vnmannacled [L. exutasvinclis], aunswer’d.

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c. 1629. Donne, Serm. (1640), 601. We shall see the Church emancipated, enfranchised, unfettered, unmanacled.

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1638. Mayne, Lucian (1664), 24. Stretch forth thy right hand: unmanacle him Vulcan, and nail him.

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1833. Tennyson, Two Voices, 236. This anguish fleeting hence, Unmanacled from bonds of sense.

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1866. Neale, Sequences & Hymns, 153. While … they unmanacled cold hands and numbed feet.

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1889. G. Smith, St. Paul at Sea, ii. Caesar and slave alike must be Unmanacled by me.

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Hence Unmanacling vbl. sb.

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1635. A. Stafford, Fem. Glory, 208. That Death to the just is no other than … the unmanacling of the Soule.

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