单词 | unreservedly |
释义 | unreservedlyadv. 1. Without reservation or qualification; absolutely, utterly. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adverb] > without conditions barelyc1400 purely1420 simply1420 simpliciter?a1425 frankly1582 unreservedly1611 absolutely1644 unconditionally1649 unconditionately1670 1611 R. Bolton Disc. State True Happinesse 50 So great wisedome, great knowledge, great honours, being imployed impartially, resolutely and vnreseruedly, in soliciting and furthering the causes of God. 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 224 The entrance into Covenant, and acceptation of the terms of it (though not sincerely and unreservedly). 1687 R. Boyle Martyrdom Theodora xi. 201 I should have been very much, if not unreservedly, guided by your wishes. 1739 A. Nicol Nature's Progress in Poetry 58 He will have Mercy yet, if I Unfeignedly do climb, And turn me unreservedly, by Jesus Christ, to him. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 242 We may trust unreservedly to the words..of the perfect Wiseman. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. iii. 53 My own person I have this morning placed unreservedly in your power. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. ii. 19 Everything was left unreservedly to her, except in case of a second marriage. 1884 R. H. Newell There was once Man x. 159 The lad's father begs leave to apologize to you, sir, unreservedly, for that impertinence. 1916 G. W. Nasmyth in G. H. Blakeslee Probl. & Lessons War 202 The board of censors..condemned unreservedly the conduct of Patterson and Armstrong. 1999 D. Bullis Preparing for Electronic Commerce in Asia xxi. 172 Lee apologized unreservedly for statements that everyone agreed were taken out of context and then blown out of proportion. 2006 R. Baudendistel Between Bombs & Good Intentions ii. 59 Those whose governments unreservedly supported Ethiopia, such as Sweden. 2. Without reserve; openly, frankly; uninhibitedly. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adverb] > straightforwardly or frankly openlya1200 simplyc1325 plainlyc1390 frankly?1553 open-heartedly1611 heart-to-heart1654 unreservedly1708 straightforwardly1839 single-heartedly1857 straight1961 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > sincerity, freedom from deceit > [adverb] > frankly freelyeOE unreservedly1708 candidly1762 outspokenly1855 straight1874 man to man1902 (straight) from the shoulder1904 squat1909 1708 tr. J. F. Ostervald Nature Uncleanness Considered iii. iii. 119 Too much Liberty is given the younger sort, who are allowed to live freely, openly, and unreservedly. 1715 in tr. U. Cerri Acct. State Roman-Catholick Relig. Pref. p. i I have so unreservedly spoken my Thoughts to His Holiness, that I have but few Words left for any less sanctified Reader. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. viii. 43 This I may the more unreservedly say to you. 1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 286/2 When the bill came before them, he should state his sentiments unreservedly. 1867 Mrs. H. Wood Orville Coll. II. xi. 249 Full of her griefs and grievances, she spoke out unreservedly. 1901 A. R. R. Turnbull Tales from Natal 127 The majority of Boers..will talk and behave unreservedly, as no other European people would dare to do. 1925 S. S. Koteliansky & P. Tomlinson tr. A. Chekhov in Life & Lett. iv. 261 You are like a spectator in the theatre who expresses his rapture so unreservedly that he prevents both himself and others from listening. 2008 J. C. Shields Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Liberation 206 The youthful poet who spoke unreservedly of such subjects as sublimity and imagination. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1611 |
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