uncumberedadj.
Not encumbered.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > [adjective] > not hindering or encumbering > not hindered or encumbered
freeeOE
unletted?a1425
unimpeachedc1430
frank1481
nearc1520
untangled1539
unclogged1548
uncumbered1551
unprevented1572
cumberless1581
unentangleda1586
undebarred1595
unstayed1600
disencumbered1611
unhindered1615
unretarded1615
unstopped1621
unobstructed1648
unengaged1653
extricated1657
unbeclogged1674
unhampered1702
unembarrassed1708
unencumbered1722
unstemmed1732
disembarrassed1741
unstifled1742
unimpeded1760
smooth1792
untrammelled1795
unintercepted1814
unmired1834
frictionless1848
unsmothereda1849
unbalked1888
unlocked1890
1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. To Rdr. For neither is..mi laiser so quiet and vncombered, that I maie perform iustlie so learned a laboure.
1578 G. Best True Disc. Passage to Cathaya ii. 12 But a seruaunte,..a good footeman, and vncombred with anye furniture..ouertooke one of them.
1700 J. Dryden To my Kinsman J. Driden in Fables 94 Lord of your self, uncumber'd with a Wife.
1738 A. Pope One Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Eight Dialogue I 3 in Poems & Imitations of Horace I have..Seen him, uncumber'd with the Venal Tribe, Smile without Art.
1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence ii. xxii Unless..mighty patrons the coy sisters call Up to the sun-shine of uncumber'd ease.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 210 He is..uncumbered with the concealment sometimes practised, of bushes or sprigs hung about his person.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. viii. 261 The Trojans,..In a clear space uncumbered by the slain, Held council.
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