unreserve

American  

[uhn-ri-zurv] / ˌʌn rɪˈzɜrv /

noun

1. absence of reserve; frankness; candor.

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Etymology

Origin of unreserve

First recorded in 1745–55; un- ¹ + reserve

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Example Sentences

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unreserve

For surely, despite all his proneness towards a musing solitude, Lincoln, of all Americans, displays through all his published statements, and in all his public life, an instructive and unstudied openness and unreserve.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee

She was, I think, turning over in her mind whether she would give herself the relief of complete unreserve, or continue for a few more days to skim round on the outskirts of confidences.

From In the Mountains by Elizabeth von Arnim

It may have wondered, if it was an observant cigarette, at the unreserve with which the narrator took its smoker into the bosom of her confidence, and the lively interest her story provoked.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

Nor did this unreserve appear like the weakness of one who could not conceal, or like a determination to make war on the forms of society.

From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe

"I never thought of it," said Electra at once, in the simplest unreserve.

From Rose MacLeod by Alice Brown

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