Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To release or deliver from prison; set free.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To take or deliver from prison.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic, transitive To
free fromprison .
Etymologies
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un- + prison
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Examples
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In no time, he had Luciano transferred to Great Meadow, "the state's unprison-looking prison" in the town of Comstock, sixty miles north of Albany.
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It should be as unprison-like and attractive as any residence for the non-criminal.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 Various
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That his home should be as unirritating and restful to him as possible it should be unprison-like always, and only be an imprisonment when the violent phases of his malady imperatively demand restraint.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 Various
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