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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English enslaved English unenslaved From un- + enslaved.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not enslaved.
This hour, among the proudest, boldest, wisest, within the borders of Paganism, there lives not a man, unenslaved by the lowest delusion. The soothsayer, the interpreter of dreams, the sacrificer, the seller of the remnants and dust of the dead, the miserable pretender to magic; those are the true rulers of the haughty empire—those are the sceptre-bearers, […]
1828, [George Croly], chapter XXI, in Salathiel. A Story of the Past, the Present, and the Future, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 362:VVhen the ſtates of Europe learn to diſtinguiſh their true intereſts, vvhen they eſtabliſh a firm baſis of union among themſelves; then, and then only, can they hope to ſee their arms directed againſt the common enemies of mankind; to ſee their commerce uninterrupted, their people uninſlaved by the refuſe of the earth!
1777 October 6 (date written), Eyles Irwin, “Letter II. [Monday, 6th October [1777].]”, in A Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage Up the Red-Sea, on the Coasts of Arabia and Egypt, and of a Route through the Desarts of Thebais, hitherto Unknown to the European Traveller, in the Year M.DCC.LXXVII. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], published 1780, →OCLC, page 386:Unenslaved by the foe let us die, as free men with our children and wives let us quit this life together! […] The need for this is of God's sending, the reverse of this is the Romans' desire, and their fear is lest a single one of us should die before capture.
1926, Josephus, “[History of the Jewish War against the Romans] Book VII”, in H[enry] St. J[ohn] Thackeray, transl., edited by L. A. Post [et al.], Josephus with an English Translation […] (The Loeb Classical Library; 210), volume III (The Jewish War, Books IV–VII), London: William Heinemann; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, published 1961, →OCLC, page 613:
Synonyms
Translations (1)
el αδούλωτος (unenslaved)