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Definition of Set free
1. Verb. Grant freedom to. "The students liberated their slaves upon graduating from the university"
Generic synonyms: Discharge, Free
Specialized synonyms: Affranchise, Enfranchise, Emancipate, Manumit, Decolonise, Decolonize
Derivative terms: Liberation, Liberation, Liberator, Liberty, Liberty, Liberty
Definition of Set free
1. Verb. (transitive) To release, to free, to give freedom to. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Set Free
Literary usage of Set free
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First by Edward Augustus Freeman (1882)
"Robert of Robert of Belleme was set free. His promises were of free. ... Robert of
Belleme was thus set free, because his father "had asked for his freedom. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1898)
"Mrs. Thicknesse produced proofs of her accomplishments and was set free. In 1800
she published her novel, ' The School for Fashion,' in which many ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1894)
"In the majority of such cases the form in which the metal is set free depends
upon its fusibility. When both the metal and its compound are fusible only at ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"After slaves in England had been set free, in 1772, a district in Sierra Leone
was set apart to be colonized by liberated slaves. Here, from 1786 on, ..."
5. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1887)
"They at once proposals, set her free to abandon that attitude of menace— set free .
T» • Tr Austria armed menace—by which—without ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1903)
"The bill further charged, they were advised, that by the laws of the state of
Tennessee, slaves could not be set free by last will and testament, ..."
7. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"SONG OF THE SOULS set free Wrap the earth in cloudy weather For a shroud. We have
slipped the earthly tether, We're above the cloud. ..."
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