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unemˈbarrassed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not encumbered, hampered, or impeded. (In lit. or fig. uses.)
1708Diss. Drunkenness 31 Temperance, how clean and unembarassed it keeps the Senses! 1717Berkeley in Fraser Life (1871) 551 [The church of] St. Spiritus [is] very neat and unembarrassed [with ornament]. 1796Instr. & Reg. Cavalry (1813) 201 The movements of the second line to conform to that of the first are free and unembarrassed. 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. ix. (1852) 296 Not a single doctrine could remain unembarrassed with doubt. 1884Manch. Exam. 6 Oct. 5/2 To be left to pursue an unembarrassed course in [governing] Egypt.
2. Not confused or constrained; free, at ease.
1746Yorke in G. Harris Life Ld. Hardwicke (1847) II. 235 The second [ballad] is entitled, ‘The Unembarrassed Countenance’. 1762Foote Liar i. i, He is as unimbarrassed, easy, and fluent..as if he really believed what he said. 1786Beckford's Vathek (1868) 73 His gait was unembarrassed and noble. 1850Thackeray Pendennis xxix, The young man was perfectly easy and unembarrassed. 1897Harper's Mag. Apr. 726 Declining the unembarrassed entreaties.., I despatched my inquiries and fled. |