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dis- +‎ enslave

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disenslave (third-person singular simple present disenslaves, present participle disenslaving, simple past and past participle disenslaved)

  1. (obsolete) To free from slavery, to emancipate.
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
      He shall disenslave and redeem his soul.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for disenslave”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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