Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Freedom from restraint: noting the treatment of insanity without strapping, the use of the strait-jacket, or the like.

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Examples

  • The so-called non-restraint system, popularized by Robert Gardiner Hill and John Conolly in England, aroused considerable interest in the United States.

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

  • The so-called non-restraint system, popularized by Robert Gardiner Hill and John Conolly in England, aroused considerable interest in the United States.

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

  • This arrangement of unchecked non-restraint has bred politicians and public officials who appear to consider it their private matter how they spend -- I would almost say waste the state's money.

    Iris Erlingsdottir: The Country We Could Have Been Iris Erlingsdottir 2010

  • This arrangement of unchecked non-restraint has bred politicians and public officials who appear to consider it their private matter how they spend -- I would almost say waste the state's money.

    Iris Erlingsdottir: The Country We Could Have Been 2010

  • Benjamin Rotch and Henry Pownall, of the Middlesex magistrates, dedicated the asylum to non-restraint and promised that no hand or foot would be bound here, while a writer in the Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology hoped that the interior of the asylum would not be permitted to remain so dead and prison-like as those we find at present in our public asylums.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Benjamin Rotch and Henry Pownall, of the Middlesex magistrates, dedicated the asylum to non-restraint and promised that no hand or foot would be bound here, while a writer in the Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology hoped that the interior of the asylum would not be permitted to remain so dead and prison-like as those we find at present in our public asylums.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Benjamin Rotch and Henry Pownall, of the Middlesex magistrates, dedicated the asylum to non-restraint and promised that no hand or foot would be bound here, while a writer in the Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology hoped that the interior of the asylum would not be permitted to remain so dead and prison-like as those we find at present in our public asylums.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • The trustees of the Worcester hospital were acutely aware of the dilemma when they expressed regret that circumstances precluded the adoption of the non-restraint system.

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

  • The trustees of the Worcester hospital were acutely aware of the dilemma when they expressed regret that circumstances precluded the adoption of the non-restraint system.

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

  • When you are in a group of soldiers, there is what is called a “vowed non-restraint.”

    General Introduction to the Initial Scope Teachings of the Graded Path (Lam-rim) ��� Day One: Spiritual Teachers, Precious Human Life, Death and Impermanence Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche I 1980

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