To free someone from chains or bondage; to release from confinement or slavery.
From dis- (reversal) + enchain (from en- + chain, meaning to bind with chains). This word literally reverses the act of chaining someone up.
Abolitionist literature in the 18th and 19th centuries used 'disenchain' as a powerful word for liberating enslaved people—it emphasized both the literal breaking of physical chains and the metaphorical breaking of oppression.
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