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c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 394 (MED) Thei mowe not eny punysching or eny restreyne sette to preestis or clerkis.

c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 193 (MED) If þe ije seid consideracioun of to wirchyng in his largest spredyng, wiþout restreyne and narowyng, schulde be such ground..þanne bi þe multipliyng of it we schulde haue mo tablis þan were accordyng to be of goddis lawis.

1601 Marie Magdalens Lament. sig. Hiii Though thou did forbid, twas no restraine.

1643 C. Herle Answer to Fernes Reply 18 The King is able to doe Justice..without restraine.

1677 E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. (Camden) 146 It looked as if they were guilty of confederacy for w^ch they were under soe close a restraine.

1734 E. S. Rowe Lett. Moral & Entertaining (ed. 2) II. xv. 85 I bid my Soul take its Ease—banish every Care—and act without Restrain [later edd. restraint].

1799 F. Jacson Plain Sense (ed. 3) III. iii. 42 Ellen, left to herself, wept without restrain [1796 (ed. 2) restraint] and without measure.

1841 Philadelphia Visiter Nov. 245/1 They hoped to be able to leave Paris in a week, and wished to enjoy each other's society without restrain in the interim.

1894 Altruistic Rev. Sept. 150/2 The destruction of this flood being lessened by legislation and the restrain of the ‘union’.

1911 C. Fuller Bramble Bush xxviii. 284 The restrain of his presence was quite apparent in the expurgated edition of Matson's gossip.

2001 K. G. Butler Idea of Right v. 96 God's power to act, to make rules and laws without restrain, is mimicked by the Hobbesian Sovereign.