ungyvedadj.
Not gyved or fettered; free.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adjective]
freeeOE
unneedc1175
easyc1200
untiedc1374
unhemmeda1400
largec1400
unrefraineda1500
rampanta1540
unmuzzleda1541
unyoked1573
yokeless1584
licensed1593
unbound1593
wild1599
broad1604
fetterless1604
unconfined1607
ungyved1607
ungaged?1617
unboundeda1625
unfettereda1631
vagabond1635
unmanacled1686
unrestricted1750
haggard-wild1786
unconstrained1796
unshackled1796
chainless1816
rioty1819
untethered1826
unwithholdena1834
bondless1845
fancy-loose1850
constraintless1865
unpressured1879
undammed1896
balls-to-the-wall1967
balls-out1968
1607 J. Marston What you Will ii. i Think'st thou a libertine, an vngiu'd breast Skornes not the shacklesse of thy enuious clogges?
c1850 J. R. Lowell Without & Within vii I envy him the ungyved prance By which his freezing feet he warms.
1892 ‘M. Field’ Sight & Song 40 Intent upon her work, as though It were full liberty ungyved to go.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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