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# {{lb|en|transitive}} To free from [[slavery]] or [[captivation]]. |
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To free from [[slavery]] or [[captivation]] ([[thraldom]]). |
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#* {{quote-journal|en|date=March 30, 2008|author=Peter Applebome|title=Applying Gandhi’s Ideas to Climate Change|work=New York Times|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/nyregion/30towns.html |
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=March 30, 2008|author=Peter Applebome|title=Applying Gandhi’s Ideas to Climate Change|work=New York Times|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/nyregion/30towns.html |
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|passage=He noted Gandhi’s sense of satyagraha and a statement of Lincoln’s during the depths of the Civil War: “We must '''disenthrall''' ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”}} |
|passage=He noted Gandhi’s sense of satyagraha and a statement of Lincoln’s during the depths of the Civil War: “We must '''disenthrall''' ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”}} |
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Revision as of 21:16, 13 April 2021
English
Alternative forms
- disenthral (UK)
Etymology
Verb
disenthrall (third-person singular simple present disenthralls, present participle disenthralling, simple past and past participle disenthralled)
- (transitive) To free from slavery or captivation (thraldom).
- 2008 March 30, Peter Applebome, “Applying Gandhi’s Ideas to Climate Change”, in New York Times[1]:
- He noted Gandhi’s sense of satyagraha and a statement of Lincoln’s during the depths of the Civil War: “We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
Translations
To free from slavery or captivation
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