单词 | unrestrained |
释义 | unrestrainedadj.n. A. adj. 1. a. Not subjected (or subject) to restraint, esp. in respect of action or conduct; uninhibited; spontaneous, natural. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adjective] > in action, conduct, or habit freec1300 unbridledc1374 riotous?1456 liberala1500 unrestrained1531 libertine1593 relaxed1623 long-waisted1647 self-abandoning1817 laissez-aller1818 self-abandoned1833 uninhibited1880 un-Victorian1908 leggo1943 zizzy1966 loose1968 1531 Bp. W. Barlow Dyaloge Lutheran Faccyons sig. l3 Sathane ys loosed at large, & the lyenge goste the spyryte of vntrueth, walkyth at lyberty vnrestreynede. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. sig. Hh3 Zelmanes..vnrestrained parts, the minde & eie, had their free course to the delicate Philoclea. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. iii. 7 There..he daylie doth frequent, With vnrestrained loose companions. View more context for this quotation 1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 34 The vnrestrained, and free choyse of the will. 1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 68 He that is guilty of the Excess, is said to be..unrestrained and let loose to all Debauchery. 1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 67 With heads and hearts elated by affluence, and unrestrained by foresight or discretion. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 182 What will not power effect, when unrestrained by conscience? 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxxix. 56 While o'er the parent clime prowls Murder unrestrain'd. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. ii. 159 His letters..are simple, easy, and unrestrained. 1864 G. O. Trevelyan Competition Wallah xii. 445 The free and unrestrained life of an English lady. 1890 Retrospect Med. 102 351 He walks about the room,..and in many respects is unrestrained in his movements. 1936 Obituary Notices Fellows Royal Soc. 2 2 It was..only the minor happenings that he treated in such a light-hearted and boyishly unrestrained manner. 1960 ELH 27 270 This is the very picture of what Aristotle calls the incontinent, or unrestrained, man. 2008 Guardian (Nexis) 13 Dec. (Work section) 4 An unrestrained personality is often valued where a flexible, spontaneous approach is called for. b. spec. Free from physical restraint; esp. not restrained by a seat belt, safety harness, or the like. ΚΠ 1950 Pop. Sci. July 84/2 According to the Thin Man, the body of a relaxed, unrestrained passenger in even a fairly minor crash moves upward and forward with considerable force. 1985 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 1 June 1620/1 Unrestrained front seat occupants showed a higher incidence of serious injury when there were rear seat passengers. 2010 Sun (Nexis) 8 Sept. 7 An unrestrained child can be killed in an impact with speeds as low as 5mph. 2. Esp. of emotions: allowed free rein or vent, given full expression; uncontrolled, unchecked, unconfined. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adjective] > completely unchecked unbridledc1374 untempered1377 bridleless?1406 unrepressed?a1425 untemperatea1425 savagea1450 unchecked1469 undaunted1513 uncontrolleda1535 reinless1566 unrestrained1578 ineffrenate1581 unbitteda1586 check-free1598 uncurbed1600 checkless1604 unbounded1608 uncontained?1611 dis'chained1615 ungoverneda1616 unstanched1621 unsneaped1647 incontrolled1650 controlless1657 irregulated1664 curbless1813 do-as-you-please1845 disenchaineda1849 1578 A. Golding tr. Seneca Conc. Benefyting vi. xxx. f. 97 Folowing vnrestreyned wrathe, they shed the blud of manie men, & at the last their owne too. a1600 R. Hooker Remedie Sorrow & Fear (1612) 3 Naturall compassion..caused them..to poure forth vnrestrained teares. 1712 G. Berkeley Passive Obed. §42. 53 So unrestrained [are] the Passions of Men. 1796 F. Burney Camilla V. x. xiii. 516 Her tears now flowed fast from unrestrained delight. 1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxiii. 172 He was attacked with all the bitterness of a..very unrestrained animosity. 1941 Life 11 Aug. 68/2 The first Lindbergh broadcast..stirred consternation among the friends of Britain and enemies of Hitler, unrestrained joy among the isolationists. 1963 P. H. Aron in J. S. Curtiss Ess. Russ. & Soviet Hist. iii. 295 Unrestrained greed for power and wealth gripped these rulers. 2000 J. Nicoletta Buildings of Nevada 220/2 A new plaza displaying an even more unrestrained classicism stands just to the north. 3. a. Not restricted or limited. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adjective] > not restricted or limited unrestrained1600 unbounded1608 undetermined1627 negative1678 irrestrictive1709 unrestricted1750 unshackled1776 wide open1858 1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah xv. 314 That vnrestrained prerogatiue in God, is once more expressed to vs in the selfe same fish. 1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre v. x. 199 His power must be..vnrestrained, that flying with vnpinion'd wings it may seeme to be hid within the Skie of the greatest Actions. 1670 Earl of Clarendon Ess. in Tracts (1727) 184 The spacious Fields of their unlimited and unrestrained Contemplation. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 95 There being..an unrestrain'd Intercourse between the King's Camp and Edenborough. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. i. 363 The emulation which an unrestrained competition never fails to excite. View more context for this quotation 1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London III. viii. 219 The unrestrained intermixture of ranks..is a remarkable trait of your national manners. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxviii. 364 The men..had frequent and unrestrained intercourse with them. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 376 The ‘unantagonised’ or ‘unrestrained’ influence exerted by the cerebellum. 1928 Sci. Monthly Aug. 99 (caption) Land destroyed for crop use by unrestrained erosion. 1990 A. Toffler Powershift iii. xiii. 148 The drawbacks of unrestrained liberty became starkly apparent. 2012 Daily Tel. 8 Aug. 15/5 The former all-you-can-eat format served as an unrestrained invitation to gluttony and waste. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [adjective] > free or unrestrained ejaculatory1646 unrestrained1764 omniloquent1824 outspoken1850 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > generally applicable general1394 communicative1641 irrestrictive1709 unrestrained1764 1764 W. Guthrie Reply to Counter-address 39 His gross invectives..were not confined, as my Author would pretend, to the subjects of the warrants, but were very vague and unrestrained. 1766 J. Burrow Rep. Court King's Bench 2 920 The Generality of the Expression..if unrestrained and unqualified by other Words, would carry All the Testator's Estate in Possession, Reversion or Remainder. 1873 Rep. Cases Supreme Court N.Y. (new ed.) 2 365 This case pre-supposes that the general words may be restrained by implication from other parts of the will. [The case of] Tenny v. Agar, goes upon the general, unrestrained words. B. n. With the and plural agreement. Unrestrained people considered collectively. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [noun] > one who acts freely libertine1612 free agent1649 thelemite1656 unreserved1756 volent1768 unrestrained1770 free-wheeler1938 1770 R. Glover Leonidas (ed. 5) I. iv. 150 The unrestrain'd and free Will fly from danger. 1857 F. W. Faber Poems iv. v. 83 A painful problem, gendering thought and tears Even in the sage, and in the unrestrained A refuge oft for easy misbelief. 1917 C. A. F. Rhys Davids tr. Bk. Kindred Sayings (2005) I. 106 In garb of decent well-conducted folk The unrestrained live in the world at large. 2004 tr. Proclus in J. Dillon & L. P. Gerson Neoplatonic Philos. 349 Various areas of human life—where..the unrestrained are opposed to the temperate. Derivatives ˌunreˈstrainedness n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [noun] freedomOE freenesslOE libertya1393 licence?a1400 wilfulnessc1460 immunity1549 latitude1605 voluntariness1612 liberum arbitrium1642 free agencya1646 libertinism1649 unrestrainedness1698 unrestraint1755 relaxity1759 head1804 laissez-aller1818 unrestrictedness1825 uninhibitedness1947 1698 R. Ferguson View Ecclesiastick 77 To speak or write of those whom one dislikes, with a Liberty and Unrestrainedness, as if every thing were lawful to be pronounced of them. 1855 Harper's Mag. June 98/1 Its chief peculiarity seemed, that, large as it was, it had all the unrestrainedness and cosiness of home. 1889 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 296 No men on earth ever have had liberty in the sense of unrestrainedness of action. 1971 Hist. & Theory 11 74 Inner independence and unrestrainedness..flourish only in an atmosphere of intellectual freedom and enlightened open-mindedness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1531 |
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