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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Freedom from restraint: noting the treatment of insanity without strapping, the use of the strait-jacket, or the like.
Examples
“The so-called non-restraint system, popularized by Robert Gardiner Hill and John Conolly in England, aroused considerable interest in the United States.”
“This arrangement of unchecked non-restraint has bred politicians and public officials who appear to consider it their private matter how they spend -- I would almost say waste the state's money.”
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“Benjamin Rotch and Henry Pownall, of the Middlesex magistrates, dedicated the asylum to non-restraint and promised that no hand or foot would be bound here, while a writer in the Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology hoped that the interior of the asylum would not be permitted to remain so dead and prison-like as those we find at present in our public asylums.”
“The trustees of the Worcester hospital were acutely aware of the dilemma when they expressed regret that circumstances precluded the adoption of the non-restraint system.”
“When you are in a group of soldiers, there is what is called a “vowed non-restraint.””
“But the vast bulk of the people already seem to be rollicking in a curious sense of non-restraint.”
“All transitions are dangerous; and the most dangerous is the transition from the restraint of the family circle to the non-restraint of the world.”
“I admit that public peace and security are seriously endangered by the non-restraint of the maniacal insane.”
“Canine customers revel in the lap of luxury, enjoying non-restraint grooming and double baths with any of a dozen specialty shampoos, such as honey almond, at no extra charge.”
“She adds that there is always the risk of injury to a dog when they're groomed with a noose around their neck and says the non-restraint grooming practiced at the spa has helped expand her clientele to more than 350 dogs in less than two months.”
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