unentangledadj.
(un- prefix1 2.)
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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
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. ix. sig. Nn1 So I in simple course, and vnentangled minde Did suffer drousie lids mine eyes..to blinde.
1622 S. Ward Christ All in All (1627) 36 He had now nothing left but..Christ, whom hee..would now with vnlimed and vnentangled wings flye vnto.
1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vii. 270 He was unintangled with any Acquaintance or Friends.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 89 To keep the thread of the narration in an unintangled method.
1781 S. Johnson Collins in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets IX. 8 That this man..passed always unentangled through the snares of life, it would be..temerity to affirm.
1842 J. B. Fraser Allee Neemroo I. 20 Its rider, shot forward from its back,..fortunately unentangled by its harness.
1901 H. W. Holden Justif. 96 We may be free indeed to follow the Lord..unentangled and unembarrassed by any other will.
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