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

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

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

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

I am extremely pleased, that in freeing ourselves, we have a prospect of unfettering the consciences and the commerce of the world.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII by Sparks, Jared