disencumbers

Our mode of expression disencumbers the argument of an extraneous element of debate, and so far places the sceptical cavil of Hume simply beside the question.

Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator. 1823-1886 1855

Face to face with infinities, man disencumbers himself.

Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910

Fixing his mind on the Idea of two human beings, a man and a woman who trespass from the law of the great moral powers ordering the Universe (Man along with it) and are overtaken in that trespass and punished, Shakespeare disencumbers it of all that is trivial, irrelevant, non-essential.

Poetry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

In verse the German disencumbers himself of that gruesome clumsiness which almost always besets him in the art he learnt so late, and never learnt to any perfection.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

But the first time I hinted to him about an investment, he turns on me and disencumbers himself of the following terms and expressions.

The Gentle Grafter O. Henry 1886

It detects not only in Christianity but in any religion to which it adverts the play of usually obsolete conventions, and it disencumbers every religious claim and representation of its absolute character.

Joseph S. O'Leary homepage 2008

Do you not see how his consciousness rises in elevation, as he clears himself of his humiliating bondage; how his soul finds springs of joy opening in herself, as the good of condition falls off and perishes; how every loss disencumbers him; how every toil, and fasting, and fight, as it clears him more of the notion or thought of happiness, lifts him into a joy as much more ennobled as it is more sovereign?

Sermons for the New Life. 1802-1876 1876

An assassin disencumbers himself of anything that is likely to impede him, especially when he is going to struggle with a man as young as himself.”

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

An assassin disencumbers himself of anything that is likely to impede him, especially when he is going to struggle with a man as young as himself. "

The Paris Sketch Book William Makepeace Thackeray 1837