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un-bindan

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Add: I. to free from a bond (lit. or fig. )
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  • Frameallum bende unrihtwísnesse þú unbinst (

    absolvis

    ) mægen þín,
      Angl. xi. 116, 5, Hé hí
    mid bendum fæste hét gewríðan . . . hé hét hí eft ealle unbindan, Hml. S. 23, 191.
to release from restrictive condition
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  • Swá hwæt swá hí unbindað ofer eoritan, þæt bið unbunden on heofonum,

      Hml. Th. i. 542, 18.
  • Gif hwá on þǽre untrumnysse sý . . . þonne meaht ðú hine unbindan. Genim þysse wyrte , . . fíf ðýfelas . . . Þus ðú hine meaht of þǽre untrumnesse unbindan,

      Lch. i. 98, 14-22.
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v. un-bunden.
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