unconstraining love

Definitions

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  • adjective That does not constrain

Etymologies

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un- +‎ constraining

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Examples

  • Thick and heavy on her shoulders, but light and unconstraining around her arms and legs.

    Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006

  • The liberated and emancipated Man passes unconstrained and unconstraining through all grades and planes of human fellowship, equal and undisturbed, and never leaving his true home and abiding place in the heart of all.

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

  • The liberated and emancipated Man passes unconstrained and unconstraining through all grades and planes of human fellowship, equal and undisturbed, and never leaving his true home and abiding place in the heart of all.

    Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning Edward Carpenter 1886

  • And there was a sweet adoring creature within reach whose presence was as safe and unconstraining as that of her own kids, -- who would believe any fable, and remain quite unimpressed by public opinion.

    Romola George Eliot 1849

  • Nor is it Plato’s licensing of books will do this, which necessarily pulls along with it so many other kinds of licensing, as will make us all both ridiculous and weary, and yet frustrate; but those unwritten, or at least unconstraining laws of virtuous education, religious and civil nurture, which Plato there mentions, as the bonds and ligaments of the Commonwealth, the pillars and the sustainers of every written statute; these they be which will bear chief sway in such matters as these, when all licensing will be easily eluded.

    Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: Paras 1-19 1909

  • Nor is it Plato's licensing of books will do this, which necessarily pulls along with it so many other kinds of licensing, as will make us all both ridiculous and weary, and yet frustrate; but those unwritten, or at least unconstraining, laws of virtuous education, religious and civil nurture, which Plato there mentions as the bonds and ligaments of the commonwealth, the pillars and the sustainers of every written statute; these they be which will bear chief sway in such matters as these, when all licensing will be easily eluded.

    Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England John Milton 1641

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