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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unmortgage.
  • adjective Not subject to a mortgage.

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  • adjective (especially of a title) free from any encumbrance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law

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Examples

  • In sum, natural independence and/or communal enfranchisement upon a rent-free, unmortgaged, plot is not a condition which defines wage-laboring majorities in the post-industrial age.

    FROM ENCLOSURE TO FORECLOSURE �� How Today's Capitalism Ruins Society, Economy, and Environment 2009

  • The Nation, unmortgaged to any economic interest or political power, will continue to challenge our downsized politics of excluded alternatives, propose bold ideas, ferret out the truth, expose corruption and abuse of power, and hold our politicians accountable.

    Katrina vanden Heuvel: A Transformational Presidency? 2008

  • The wealthy and I include among these the unmortgaged-to-the-hilt owners of more than one sizeable property and the discreetly wealthy with hundred-thousand-euro-plus annual incomes, as well as the more obvious million- and billionaires, however; the wealthy seem only to get wealthier.

    between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2006

  • But for the most part, they have extensive properties which are unmortgaged.

    CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2002 2002

  • A good-tempered, smart stallion mule was a prize - and about the only unmortgaged asset Clyde had left.

    Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973

  • They finally reached a complicated three-cornered deal in which McFee bought the I Spy for himself, Lazarus delivered clear title to it unmortgaged and accepted McFee's unsecured note in payment, then purchased the freighter by endorsing McFee's note back to him and adding cash.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • They finally reached a complicated three-cornered deal in which McFee bought the I Spy for himself, Lazarus delivered clear title to it unmortgaged and accepted McFee's unsecured note in payment, then purchased the freighter by endorsing McFee's note back to him and adding cash.

    Methuselah's Children Heinlein, Robert A. 1958

  • Father left very little unmortgaged except mother's own property, and I thought I'd get out of Canton.

    The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger

  • With a few unmortgaged dollars in his pocket, he was instantly one of them.

    The Seventh Noon Frederick Orin Bartlett

  • But Jill did not stop on refusing the eligible owner of an unmortgaged estate.

    Desert Love Joan Conquest

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