disprison

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Etymology[edit]

dis- +‎ prison

Verb[edit]

disprison (third-person singular simple present disprisons, present participle disprisoning, simple past and past participle disprisoned)

  1. (transitive) To release from prison; to set at liberty.
    • 1842, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VII, in Zanoni. [], volume III, London: Saunders & Otley, [], →OCLC, book the sixth (Superstition Deserting Faith), page 80:
      Away—away, over lands, and seas, and space, on the rushing desire flies the disprisoned mind!

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