unreserved

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The magic of opportunity--unreserved, unfailing, unrestrained--isn't this the calling that unites us?

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  1. adjective Not held back for a particular person: an unreserved seat.
  2. adjective Given without reservation; unqualified: unreserved praise.
  3. adjective Exhibiting no reserve: an unreserved grin of approval.

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  • One of the books in my library I value most highly is the first volume of Whittier's poems, published in 1838, “Dedicated to Henry B. Stanton, as a token of the author's personal friendship, and of his respect for the unreserved devotion of exalted talents to the cause of humanity and freedom.” Soon after our marriage we spent a few days with our gifted Quaker poet, on his farm in Massachusetts. —  Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897
  • Tomorrow's auction is unreserved, meaning there is no minimum bid amount and no set starting bid. —  Winnipeg Sun
  • Obedience was the soul of the institution, absolute, unconditional, and unreserved--even the submission of the will, to the entire abnegation of self. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
  • I can't tell you, Mr. Horn, how much I am interested in that kind and generous scheme of yours for the old Hall In her intercourse with her employer, "Cobbler" Horn's secretary was quite free and unreserved, as indeed he wished her to be It's to be a home for orphans, isn't it?" —  The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn
  • The exclusive love that binds us, by reason of our faith in Him alone, to that Lord ought to express itself in unhesitating, unfaltering, unreserved, and unreluctant obedience to every word that comes from His mouth These brief outlines are but the poorest attempt to draw out what the words of my text imply. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
 

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/ənrəˈzərvd/
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