Dictionary

unenthrall en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + enthrall.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:literal or figurative) Synonym of unenslave.
   • […] though sometimes I felt I was. They dispelled my nonage, they showed me how liberating the play of lighter desire can be, how exquisitely and surely it can enthrall and unenthrall spirit and mind […] 1935, Louis Marlow [Louis Wilkinson], Fool's Quarter Day, Faber and Faber, page 30:
   • In that first version I was trying to unenthrall myself from Foucault and Deleuze—because of the semanalyse people, turning all that into a kind of American graffiti, I think. I had spoken of sati, under Lata Mani's influence. But I had not yet written of Bhubaneswari's message. 2010, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “In response: looking back, looking forward”, in Can the Subaltern Speak? Reflections on the History of an Idea, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 227:
   • As I drove, I wrote a new to-do plan in my head. The first item was easy. Tell Tatiana about Max. The second—figure out how to unenthrall Jude—was where I got stuck. As in quicksand stuck. 2023, Deborah Wilde, chapter 28, in Magic After Midlife Collection: Books 1-3: A Humorous Paranormal Women's Fiction, Te Da Media, →ISBN:

Forms

Synonyms

disenthrall · unenslave