Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of releasing, in any sense; a release.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
release , the act of releasing or letting something go. - noun The
exorcism or an outworldlyspirit from someone.
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Examples
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This poem shows that releasement and freedom are events that happen to gendered and raced individuals.
enowning enowning 2008
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This poem shows that releasement and freedom are events that happen to gendered and raced individuals.
Archive 2008-02-01 enowning 2008
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Psychologically, Åûnyatâ refers also to the releasement from all attachment to beings, from all reification and willful appropriation of them.
The Kyoto School Davis, Bret W. 2006
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The proof is in the pudding and the results of studies, particularly those that combine processes that deal with emotional releasement, growth imagery, and the like, show that it works for many women.
Life of Brian: 2005
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The proof is in the pudding and the results of studies, particularly those that combine processes that deal with emotional releasement, growth imagery, and the like, show that it works for many women.
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Did the dear fellow discover no inclination to see me, in all the term of his releasement?
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God knoweth how we shall be delt withall in Goa, and therefore if you can procure our masters to send the king of Spaine his letters for our releasement, you should doe vs great good: for they cannot with iustice put vs to death.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Gen. Robertson sent a doctor to examine me in consequence of the petition sent by Col. Allen for my releasement.
American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge
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This he told me; and now I come to you to see if any thing can be done in this business, and you give neither releasement nor relief.
The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin
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Burkwood, one of the House of Lords, to whom I delivered a petition, who took it of me and presented it to some of the rest of the House of Lords for my husband's releasement; who, when they had seen it, said that they could not release him, but had committed his releasement to the judges at the next assizes.
The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin
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