unstinted

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ stinted.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ʌnˈstɪn.tɪd/
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Adjective

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unstinted (comparative more unstinted, superlative most unstinted)

  1. 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

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unlimited

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