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unfettering

unfettering is the present participle and gerund of unfetter.

Meaning of unfetter

Verb

unfetter (third-person singular simple present unfetters, present participle unfettering, simple past and past participle unfettered)

  1. (transitive) To release from fetters; to unchain; to let loose; to free.
    • He saw the same Turnkey unfetter a man / With but little expedition1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 86

Questions about unfettering

What is unfettering the present participle and gerund of?
Unfettering is the present participle and gerund of unfetter.

Words near unfettering in the dictionary

  1. unfetishized
  2. unfetter
  3. unfettered
  4. unfetteredly
  5. unfetteredness
  6. unfettering
  7. unfetters
  8. unfettled
  9. unfeudal
  10. unfeudalise
  11. unfeudalised

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