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
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)
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
Then sprang, as if the night found breath anew, A wind whereby the stars were disenthralled ...
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton
The waiting Continent has heard it, and already foresees the fulfilled prophecy, when she will sit "redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled by the irresistible Genius of Universal Emancipation."
From The American Union Speaker by Philbrick, John D. (John Dudley)
