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Unfetter

Unfetter \Un*fet"ter\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + fetter.] To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unfetter

mid-14c., from un- (2) "opposite of" + fetter (v.). The figurative sense is recorded from late 14c. Related: Unfettered; unfettering.

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unfetter

vb. To release from fetters; to unchain; to let loose; to free.

Usage examples of "unfetter".

British accredited representative, expressly provided for the unfettered freedom of conscience.

There appeared in the servery a young woman with a thinnish face, almost severe, and creamy, enormous breasts, unfettered by a handkerchief, even the brown nipples open to his gaze.

As a Sheeter, he was, of course, unfettered, the Sheeting profession being comparatively new to Canol Madreth.

Relatively unfettered by time or space, my mind has roamed the Galaxy in past and future to gather pieces of the truth of the great war of life against unliving death.

Swept her up from the chair and embraced her, essayed a few steps of a popular danza, was gratified and emboldened by her echoing, exultant laughter, by her unfettered joy, by the magnitude of her response.

His hand pushed aside her unfettered hair and plied a course down her back.

Court held that the unfettered discretion of officer river pilots to select their apprentices, which was almost invariably exercised in favor of their relatives and friends, was not a denial of equal protection to persons not selected despite the fact that such apprenticeship was requisite for appointment as a pilot.

For every elemental power Is kindred to our hearts, and once Acknowledged, wedded, once embraced, Once taken to the unfettered sense, Once claspt into the naked life, The union is eternal.

I stayed with her, my heart unfettered and my senses enchained, never wearied of holding her in my arms, that proud and quarrelsome woman, captivated by my senses, or rather carried away, overcome by a youthful, healthy, powerful charm, which emanated from her fragrant person and from the well-molded lines of her body.

The Major was so overjoyed to learn that he now had what amounted to unfettered command of the battalion that for the first time in many years he took a bottle of grappa to his tent that evening, and sat shaking his head and chuckling fruitily into his glass.

Perhaps she would not have given much heed to the interruption, for hers was the strength of an unfettered will, one accustomed to have way, but that, at this moment, the eyes of Stevens unclosed and met her own.

Philosophically speaking, I think self-narcotization and selfalcoholization are rather ignoble substitutes for undisturbed selfconsciousness and unfettered self-control.

Out of the country twinned and murderous in a spring of stars let the word bind the body to the wind of the senses bind the invisible nerve of the air bind and loose jess and unfetter the blank and awaiting country here in a season of hawks and O may the word upon word engender past fear and sleep may it ride limning the imagined life of the planets Gilean and Sirrion book and flame here at the Alchemist's Gate where the sound of our singing assembles, dissembles, weaving a veil over nothing.

The chief Slaver looked up at the sudden and unexpectedbut not unfamiliarsound, and found himself staring at men who in turn stared blankly at each other or at their unfettered bodies.

So innocent of restraint, unfettered by decorum and arousingly sensual, she was a beauty of mythical proportions, like a silkie rising from the sea in woman's form, come to tempt some mortal man.