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

Example Sentences

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 De Morgan, William Frend

He was a very frank person, who spoke with complete unreserve.

From Timar's Two Worlds by Jókai, Mór

Had I allowed myself complete unreserve I must have added that she charmed me, and that the very charm I found in her made my work harder.

From The King's Mirror by Hope, Anthony

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 Beardslee, Clark S.

The relation between Maecenas and the members of his literary circle was one of more intimacy and unreserve.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.