All 3 Uses of
liberate
in
Wuthering Heights
- Cathy begged that he might be liberated then, as Isabella Linton had no partner: her entreaties were vain, and I was appointed to supply the deficiency.†
Chpt 7 *
- He opened them suddenly, and resigned the object of dispute; but, ere she had well secured it, he seized her with the liberated hand, and, pulling her on his knee, administered with the other a shower of terrific slaps on both sides of the head, each sufficient to have fulfilled his threat, had she been able to fall.'†
Chpt 27
- She told me that her anguish had at last spurred Linton to incur the risk of liberating her.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(liberate) to set free -- as from prison, political oppression, persecution, expectations...