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▪ I. unconˈfined, ppl. a.1
[un-1 8.]
1. Not restrained or restricted in respect of freedom of action. Also const. to.
1607Beaum. & Fl. Woman Hater iii. i, Were we not made our selves, free, unconfin'd Commanders of our own affections? 1624Massinger Renegado i. ii, It is his pleasure.., provided (For so far I am unconfined) that I Affect and like your person. 1694Gracian's Courtier's Orac. 49 Never to be too forward nor passionate, is the sign of a free and unconfined heart. 1709Pope Ess. Crit. 639 Blest with a taste exact, yet unconfin'd. 1711Steele Spect. No. 2 ⁋1 His being unconfined to Modes and Forms. 1784Cowper Task iii. 713 Pure is the nymph, though lib'ral of her smiles, And chaste, though unconfin'd, whom I extol. 1808Scott Marm. iv. Introd. 163 Oft our talk its topic chang'd, And..Rang'd, unconfin'd, from grave to gay. 1820J. P. Neale Views Seats Eng., etc. III. Porkington 2 To the east the eye roams unconfined over the rich and highly ornamented plains of Shropshire.
b. Unlimited, unbounded.
1626Massinger Roman Actor i. ii, As his rule is infinite, his pleasures Are unconfined. 1662Bp. Hopkins Serm. (1685) 26 We begin to grow more unconfined in our knowledge, as well as our being. a1672Sterry Freed. Will (1675) 109 As an heavenly Marriage eternally established in its own unconfined Unity. a1721Prior Ess. Opinion Wks. 1907 II. 202 However our Vanities or desires are unconfined. 1738Glover Leonidas xii. 82 Now devastation, unconfin'd, involves The Malian fields. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) IV. 279 The former was subject to some restraint..; the latter consisting in general and unconfined dominion.
2. Not kept in confinement; not shut up or enclosed; not secured or kept in place.
1649Lovelace To Althea i, When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my Gates. a1711Ken Psyche Poet. Wks. IV. 299 The Soul in Vision seem'd from Flesh unloos'd To fly abroad, and spatiate unconfin'd. 1739‘R. Bull’ tr. Dedekindus' Grobianus 5 Thy Hairs, uncut and unconfin'd, With loose Disorder wanton in the Wind. 1762R. Guy Pract. Obs. Cancers 30 The Matter having a free and unconfined Discharge. 1808Scott Marm. iii. Introd. 22 Then, wild as cloud, or stream, or gale, Flow on, flow unconfin'd, my Tale! 1832H. Martineau Ella of Gar. i. 9 Her hair [was] unconfined by any cap. 1892Greener Breech Loader 163 Unconfined wood powder..may be ignited without obtaining a third of the available explosive force.
Hence unconˈfinedly adv.; unconˈfinedness.
1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 598 Sorrow, to which they so justly and unconfinedly abandon'd themselves. 1673A. Walker Lees Lachrymans 3 The healthful Vigour, the agile Unconfinedness,..of his Youth. 1687Dryden Hind & P. ii. 617 Prove any Church, oppos'd to this our head, So one, so pure, so unconfin'dly spread. 1899Macm. Mag. LXXIX. 455/2 The sense of the desert was upon me, the embracing, soothing spirit of unconfinedness.
▪ II. unconˈfined, ppl. a.2
[un-2 8.]
Released from confinement.
1833Tennyson Two Voices 371 And men,..From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind. |