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unˈshackled, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not shackled or fettered. Also transf.
[1775Ash.] 1816Byron Parisina xvii, These hands are chain'd, but let me die At least with an unshackled eye. 1821Scott Pirate xli, Cleveland and Bunce..were permitted to walk unshackled.
2. Not restricted or impeded by something.
1776Burney Hist. Mus. I. p. xiii, Freedom of thought, unshackled by the trammels of authority. 1782F. Burney Cecilia iii. ii, Surrounded as you are by the opulent and the splendid, unshackled by dependance. 1853Huxley in Life & Lett. (1900) I. 115 To be unshackled by anything that may prevent you taking the highest places. 1884Law Times 17 May 42/2 The discretion of the court was unshackled by any obligation of hearing evidence.
b. Unrestricted, unimpeded, unhampered, free.
1796F. Burney Camilla III. 21, I can desire no one to abstain from pursuing the dictates of their own sense of honour. I leave you, therefore, unshackled. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. iii. ii. 534 Ages of prosperity and freedom To this unshackled city. 1850Grote Greece ii. lxvii. VIII. 450 The full and unshackled force of comedy. |