Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without rein; without restraint; unchecked.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not having, or not governed by, reins; hence, not checked or restrained.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not having, or not governed by, reins.
  • adjective by extension Not checked or restrained.

Etymologies

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rein +‎ -less

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Examples

  • For economic performance, appropriate economic programs, and, most of all, reducing reinless corruption are the key.

    Would Women Prevent Bangladesh's Descent to Islamism? 2009

  • And they fled, scattering — lo! with reinless speed

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • Apart from this, Washington was holding the reinless tightly on his impatience.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • Apart from this, Washington was holding the reinless tightly on his impatience.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • Apart from this, Washington was holding the reinless tightly on his impatience.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • Apart from this, Washington was holding the reinless tightly on his impatience.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • Erichaetes son of Lycaon, the one when his reinless horse stumbling had flung him to the ground, the other as they met on foot.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Gaetulian towns, a race unconquerable in war; the reinless Numidian riders and the grim Syrtis hem thee in; on this lies a thirsty tract of desert, swept by the raiders of Barca.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • The reinless steed galloping on, with rider directing its tail, was ludicrous enough to behold.

    The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

  • Had he fallen asleep and reinless fancy had played him the fantastic trick, from which, cramped and dazed, he had just awakened to the old sweet reality.

    Merely Mary Ann Israel Zangwill 1895

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