unstinted
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]unstinted (comparative more unstinted, superlative most unstinted)
- Not constrained, not restrained, or not confined, great in amount or degree.
- unstinted commitment
- unstinted praise
- unstinted support
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 33, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:
- Mr. Coggan poured the liquor with unstinted liberality at the suffering Cain's circular mouth.
- 1892, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 1, in Letters of Travel:
- Wherever we went there was the sun, lavish and unstinted.
- 1900, H. G. Wells, chapter 31, in Love and Mr. Lewisham:
- You must have support and belief—unstinted support and belief.
- 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 24, in Indiscretions of Archie:
- The music-publisher had been unstinted in his praise.
- 2005 June 21, “Art: American Renaissance Man”, in Time[1], archived from the original on 6 November 2010:
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens . . .gave the crude, grabbing Republic its lessons in symbolic deportment and visual elocution, and won its unstinted gratitude.
Synonyms
[edit]- (not constrained): unconstrained, unrestrained,
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[edit]Translations
[edit]not constrained, not restrained, or not confined
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