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unreˈstrained, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not kept in check or under control; allowed free course or vent.
a1600Hooker Remedie agst. Sorrow (1612) 3 Naturall compassion..caused them..to poure forth vnrestrained teares. 1712Berkeley Pass. Obed. Wks. 1871 III. 131 So unrestrained [are] the passions of men. 1796F. Burney Camilla V. 516 Her tears now flowed fast from unrestrained delight. 1828Lytton Pelham II. xxv, They all rose in a mirth sufficiently unrestrained to be any thing but patrician. 1879McCarthy Own Times II. xxiii. 172 He was attacked with all the bitterness of a..very unrestrained animosity.
b. Not restricted or limited.
1622[see unpinioned2.] 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. ii. §41 There being..an unrestrained Intercourse between the King's Camp and Edenborough. 1670― Ess. Tracts (1727) 184 The spacious fields of their unlimited and un⁓restrained contemplation. 1776Adam Smith W.N. v. i. i. ii. (1904) II. 414 The emulation which an unrestrained competition never fails to excite. 1806T. S. Surr Winter in London III. 219 The unrestrained intermixture of ranks..is a remarkable trait of your national manners. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxviii. 364 The men..had frequent and un⁓restrained intercourse with them. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 376 The ‘unantagonised’ or ‘unrestrained’ influence exerted by the cerebellum.
c. Not limited in application.
1827Jarman Powell's Devises II. 117 They admitted that the general words, if unrestrained, would carry the reversion.
2. Not subjected (or subject) to restraint in respect of action or conduct.
a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. xxix, Zelmanes..unrestrained parts, the minde & eie, had their free course to the delicate Philoclea. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, v. iii. 7 There..he dayly doth frequent, With vnrestrained loose Companions. 1628T. Spencer Logick 34 The vnrestrained, and free choyse of the will. 1691Hartcliffe Virtues 68 He that is guilty of the Excess, is said to be..unrestrained and let loose to all Debauchery. 1751Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 67 With heads and hearts elated by affluence, and un⁓restrained by foresight or discretion. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 122 What will not power effect, when unrestrained by conscience? 1825Scott Betrothed ii, The revellers were unrestrained by the stricter rules of good-breeding. 1864Trevelyan Compet. Wallah (1866) 349 The free and unrestrained life of an English lady. 1890Retrospect Med. CII. 351 He walks about the room,..and in many respects is unrestrained in his movements.
absol.1770Glover Leonidas (ed. 5) iv. 713 The un⁓restrain'd and free Will fly from danger.
b. In appositive use: Without restraint; unrestrainedly.
1596Edward III, iii. ii. 52 Slaughter and mischiefe walke within your streets, And, vnrestrained, make hauock as they passe. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. lxxxix, While o'er the parent clime prowls Murder unrestrain'd. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxxv, The girls indulged unrestrained in their grief. 1867E. F. Bowden Fathers of Desert 374 Vice stalks abroad unrestrained.
3. Free from restraint of manner; easy, natural.
1856Froude Hist. Eng. I. ii. 159 His letters..are simple, easy, and unrestrained. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta xliii, Whose manner..had little in common with Sol's warm and unrestrained bearing.
Hence unreˈstrainedness.
[1775Ash.] 1889Pop. Sci. Monthly July 296 No men on earth ever have had liberty in the sense of unrestrainedness of action. |