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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
disburden .
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Examples
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And technology is most celebrated when it is most invisible—when the machinery is completely hidden, combining godlike effortlessness with blissful ignorance about the mechanisms that deliver our disburdened lives.
The Secular Prophet Andy Crouch 2011
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They report feeling liberated, disburdened, and alive for the first time.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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Her heart also was disburdened of the weight of grief, shame, apprehension, and fear, which had loaded her before her interview with the Queen at Richmond.
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Acting in this spirit, and resolutely proceeding on our determination to avow our obligations to the authorities we have consulted, we frankly say, that to the note – book of Mr. Snodgrass are we indebted for the particulars recorded in this and the succeeding chapter — particulars which, now that we have disburdened our consciences, we shall proceed to detail without further comment.
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His heart being thus disburdened, and his impatience gratified, he became so calm and composed, that Don Diego was equally pleased and astonished at the air of serenity with which he came forth, and embraced him with warm acknowledgments of his goodness and attachment.
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When he had thus disburdened his conscience, Sir Launcelot introduced the subject of the new occupation at which he aspired.
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And when thou hast done it, to let me understand what he saith, that I may dye the more contentedly, and disburdened of so heavy an oppression, the onely comfort to a parting spirit: and so she ceased, her teares flowing forth abundantly.
The Decameron 2004
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His, therefore, were the additional transports of a father disburdened of the guilt of such enormous homicide.
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While preparations were making for their departure, our hero held a council with his associate, whom he enriched with many sage instructions touching her future operations; he at the same time disburdened her of all or the greatest part of the spoils she had won, and after having received divers marks of bounty from the
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Having disburdened his mind of this horrible secret, Marston felt for a time a sense of relief amounting almost to elation.
The Evil Guest 2003
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