Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A freeing, or the state of having been freed, from thraldom; emancipation from slavery or subjection of any kind. Also spelled
disinthralment .
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- noun Alternative form of
disinthrallment .
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Examples
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It seemed that such conditions were on the eve of eventuating for the rescue and disenthralment of darkest Africa.
Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked C. H. Thomas
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It may not be presumptuous to feel that our efforts are not for ourselves alone, but that they tell upon the fate of the earnest and hopeful millions who are striving for disenthralment in the Old World.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various
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Parents brought their little ones to the house of mourning, and as they gazed upon the features of the departed, now inanimate in death, they taught their infant minds the impressive lesson, that before them were the mortal remains of one who had devoted his energies to the disenthralment of their race, and whose memory they should ever cherish with gratitude and reverence.
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WALKING1one day toward the Village, as we used to call it in the good old days when almost every dweller in the town had been born in it, I was enjoying that delicious sense of disenthralment from the actual which the deepening twilight brings with it, giving as it does a sort of obscure novelty to things familiar.
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He has lived to see the political disenthralment of millions of bond men.
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Civil liberty and political equality were conferred on the negroes of the United States, and it is no derogation of that act of disenthralment to say that this people have not always placed the highest value upon their enfranchisement, nor wisely used the powers it gave them, nor yet acquired the strength to develop into their living nobility of purpose, as regards political conduct and other activities.
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Page 132 race, and that no power on earth can prevent its complete disenthralment.
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It was there he saw his kindred and his friends murdered, and there registered his vow to avenge their blood in the disenthralment of the slave.
Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Mifflin Wistar Gibbs 1885
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Leslie played sad pranks in the early season of her disenthralment.
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870
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Beethoven was deaf, and could not hear the airs he composed; but when the song of universal disenthralment arises, and white Circassian stands up by the side of black Ethiopian, and tropical groves wave to the Lebanon cedars, we shall, standing somewhere, know it and see it, and hear it.
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