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unˈchecked, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
Not checked or repressed; unrestrained. Also const. by.
1469in Househ. Ord. (1790) 92 Clerkes at wages certein, unchekked, to have a yeoman and groome's parte. 1533More Apol. xlvii. Wks. 921/1 Yet he they suffred boldely to talke vnchecked. 1577G. Whetstone in Gascoigne Steele Gl., etc. (Arb.) 18 Trueth is the garde, that keepeth men vnchect. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 189 Apte the Mind or Fancie is to roave Uncheckt. 1683Burnet tr. More's Utopia (1753) 114 If they were not strictly restrained from all unchecked Appetites. 1732Pope Ess. Man ii. 40 Man's superior part Uncheck'd may rise, and climb from art to art. 1783Burke Rep. Aff. India Wks. XI. 100 The effects of commercial servitude during its unchecked existence. 1813Shelley Q. Mab ix. 84 The growing longings of its dawning love, Unchecked by dull and selfish chastity. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India II. 170 The mountaineers..were committing unchecked ravages in retaliation for invaded rights. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn lvi, Mankind was to see..unchecked power smitten with fatal impotence.
†b. Of a report: Uncontradicted. Obs.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. iii. i. 2 It liues there vncheckt, that Anthonio hath a ship..wrackt on the narrow Seas. 1619Visct. Doncaster Let. in Eng. & Germ. (Camden) 208 There is there an unchecqued report these three or foure dayes that the Count of Mansfelt [etc.]. |