Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not restrainable; incapable of being restrained or held in check.
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- adjective That cannot be
restrained .
Etymologies
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Examples
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An extremely communicative man: a man with whom loquacity was the irrestrainable outpouring of contentment and gratitude.
No Thoroughfare 2007
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New broods of these same wild geese found their way to the Transvaal, and there made for themselves a name, not as resistless fighters, but as irrestrainable looters.
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry
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The cruelty of her character betrayed itself in a faint irrestrainable smile at Petullo's discomfiture, all the more cruel because his eyes were entreatingly on hers as he mopped up awkwardly the consequences of his gaucherie.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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Our horses were now irrestrainable, and both rushed down the hill together.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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We appreciate that this may not be the expression of an irrestrainable vanity, or obsessing greed, realising that very probably his professional insight into human character informs him that the subject of the sales of books is the range of the book clerk's mind.
Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday
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Madame d'Houdetot for the next three or four months, which were among the most bitter in Rousseau's life, for then the bitterness which became chronic was new and therefore harder to be borne, wrote him the wisest, most affectionate, and most considerate letters that a sincere and sensible woman ever wrote to the most petulant, suspicious, perverse, and irrestrainable of men.
Rousseau Morley, John 1905
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Madame d'Houdetot for the next three or four months, which were among the most bitter in Rousseau's life, for then the bitterness which became chronic was new and therefore harder to be borne, wrote him the wisest, most affectionate, and most considerate letters that a sincere and sensible woman ever wrote to the most petulant, suspicious, perverse, and irrestrainable of men.
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880
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It was natural, therefore, that he should join with eagerness in the reforming movement which set in with such irrestrainable velocity after the death of Lewis
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet John Morley 1880
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Far beyond and to the southward among the wildest fastnesses of the Ozark mountains the young Shawanoe had taken refuge, where he felt secure against those of his race who hated him with irrestrainable ferocity.
The Lost Trail Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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Fred Linden, like his companion, aimed directly between the eyes of the strange beast, and, like him, he struck the mark; but both shots only served to awake the irrestrainable ferocity of the animal, which, with another rasping howl and parted jaws, bounded toward them.
The Hunters of the Ozark Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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