Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not imposed; not laid on or exacted, as a tax, burden, toll, duty, command, service, task, etc.; not enjoined.
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- adjective Not
imposed .
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Examples
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Twain's books tend to digress in all directions except when held together for a while by some unimposed force such as the Mississippi River.
The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | Mark Twain's Reconstruction | Blount Jr. 2001
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They got their little tasks as if they loved them, and indulged, from the mere exuberance of the gift, in the most unimposed little miracles of memory.
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Many of the rites which Laud imposed were such as he in conscience believed to be divinely forbidden; and even things which, if left unimposed, might have been borne with as matters of indifference, when authoritatively enjoined as of equal obligation with divine appointment, he felt ought to be resisted as an invasion of the divine prerogative and the rights of conscience, — “a teaching for doctrines of the commandments of men.”
Life of Dr Owen 1965
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They got their little tasks as if they loved them, and indulged, from the mere exuberance of the gift, in the most unimposed little miracles of memory.
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They got their little tasks as if they loved them, and indulged, from the mere exuberance of the gift, in the most unimposed little miracles of memory.
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They got their little tasks as if they loved them, and indulged, from the mere exuberance of the gift, in the most unimposed little miracles of memory.
The Turn of the Screw Henry James 1879
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At first, it seems exceedingly strange that so important a responsibility should be unimposed, unacknowledged, and denied; but the explanation is this.
Lombard Street : a description of the money market Walter Bagehot 1851
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Considerable revenue-generating flexibility is available in the form of numerous unimposed municipal GRTs.
Fitch Rates Albuquerque, NM's GO Bonds 'AA+'; Outlook Stable - Yahoo! Finance 2011
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Zoroastrianism spread unimposed during the time of the Achaemenids and through contacts with the exiled freed by Cyrus, Zoroastrian concepts further propagated and influenced the
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Zoroastrianism spread unimposed during the time of the Achaemenids and through contacts with the exiled freed by Cyrus, Zoroastrian concepts further propagated and influenced the
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