unconstraint
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of unconstraint
First recorded in 1705–15; un- 1 + constraint
Example Sentences
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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)
With her kindly unconstraint she reached for one of his hands to test its temperature.
From Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell
Dyce had not the self-oblivion of entire courtesy; it seemed probable that he would often err in tact; a certain awkwardness marred his personal bearing, which aimed at the modern ideal of flowing unconstraint.
From Our Friend the Charlatan by George Gissing
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 John Dewey
Loulou was the first to have pity on Wilhelm's discomfort, and to find means to give their intercourse in Berlin at least a little of the beautiful unconstraint of the old times.
From The Malady of the Century by Max Simon Nordau
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