unconstraint
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of unconstraint
First recorded in 1705–15; un- 1 + constraint
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Princely unconstraint has the privilege of experiment, and what is frailty in a plebeian is only frolic in a duchess.
From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
Nothing gives such an air of grace and elegance and unconstraint to a German or an English conversation as to scatter it full of "Also's" or "You knows."
From A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 by Mark Twain
Among them were a number of tall men, lean and sinewy, with a sweep of line and unconstraint of gesture that smacked of hunters' ways and mountain exercise.
From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
At table Mr. Shanner gave no undue signs of modesty or self-distrust, but talked about "things within his experience" with the utmost unconstraint.
From An Engagement of Convenience A Novel by Louis Zangwill
They dined that day alone, that is, they were but three at table; and Atlee enjoyed the unspeakable pleasure of hearing them talk with the freedom and unconstraint people only indulge in when 'at home.'
From Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever
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