Word Meanings - UNPRISON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To take or deliver from prison.

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• DELIVERANCE
  Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
• DELIVERABLE
  Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale.
• PRISONMENT
  Imprisonment. Shak.
• DELIVERLY
  Actively; quickly; nimbly. Swim with your bodies, And carry it sweetly and deliverly. Beau. & Fl.
• DELIVERNESS
  Nimbleness; agility.
• DELIVERER
  1. One who delivers or rescues; a preserver. 2. One who relates or communicates.
• DELIVER
  1. To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.
• DELIVERESS
  A female de Evelyn.
• DELIVERY
  1. The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon. 2. The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of
• PRISON
  arresting, fr. prehendre, prendere, to lay hold of, to seize. See 1. A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name. Ps. cxlii. The tyrant
• PRISONER
  1. One who is confined in a prison. Piers Plowman. 2. A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court. Bouvier. Prisoner of Hope thou art, --
• REDELIVER
  1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
• REDELIVERY
  1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
• REIMPRISON
  To imprison again.
• IMPRISON
  1. To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine. He imprisoned was in chains remediles. Spenser. 2. To limit, restrain, or confine in any way. Try to imprison the resistless wind. Dryden. Syn. -- To incarcerate; confine;
• UNPRISON
  To take or deliver from prison.
• REIMPRISONMENT
  The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned.
• IMPRISONMENT
  The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint. His sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common
• REDELIVERANCE
  A second deliverance.
• IMPRISONER
  One who imprisons.
• DISPRISON
  To let loose from prison, to set all liberty. Bulwer.
• STATEPRISON
  See N