unwrest

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ wrest.

Verb

unwrest (third-person singular simple present unwrests, present participle unwresting, simple past and past participle unwrested)

1. (transitive, archaic) To restore from a wrested or distorted state.
   • a. 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, An Introduction to a Breviary of the History of England […] :

     […] for that they were content somewhat to unwrest the sovereignty from the height whereunto he had strained it; which brought the state to a better proportion of harmony.