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Set free   /sɛt fri/   Listen
Set free

verb
1.
Grant freedom to.  Synonym: liberate.






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"Set free" Quotes from Famous Books



... Father does love me, my Mother also Does send me her love, and I now feel it flow; These heavenly Parents are kind unto me, And by their directions my soul is set free. ...
— The Communistic Societies of the United States • Charles Nordhoff

... these means by those fitted to benefit therefrom should be removed. But the only justification for the interference of the State is that the compulsion exacted in the matter of taxes or otherwise is of small moment compared with the capacity for freedom and intellectual development set free in the individuals benefited. In other words, the cost involved by the removal of the hindrance must be reckoned as small compared with the ultimate good to the community as manifested in the higher development—in the higher welfare ...
— The Children: Some Educational Problems • Alexander Darroch

... would naturally feel in the presence of some torturer or tyrant whom he had slain, or even whom he had surprised asleep. For the prerogative of both sleep and death is that they obliterate the repulsive elements of flesh and blood and set free ...
— The Complex Vision • John Cowper Powys

... that I fear.' Norfolk had come upon an embassy here; then assuredly Cromwell's power waned, or never had this foe of his been sent in this office of honour. The cook was cast in the Tower, but set free by the King's men; young Poins was cast too, but set free—the Lady Elliott—and the Lady Howard. What then? ...
— Privy Seal - His Last Venture • Ford Madox Ford

... Leader: "Now I see the net That snares you here, and how ye are set free, Why the earth quakes, and ...
— Dante's Purgatory • Dante


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