unconstraint
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of unconstraint
First recorded in 1705–15; un- 1 + constraint
Example Sentences
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It is calculated to inspire unconstraint and confidence into every breast.
From Four Early Pamphlets by Godwin, William
One minute you feel as if you may address her with perfect unconstraint, and the next you find yourself scared back to the most respectful distance.
From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
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 Zangwill, Louis
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 Hugo, Victor
There is tendency on the part of both the upholders and the opponents of freedom in school to identify it with absence of social direction, or, sometimes, with merely physical unconstraint of movement.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John
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