Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being tamed; untamable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
tamed - adjective Not
tamable , unable to betamed .
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Examples
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She "left behind" a tribe of impressive children (7) and grandchildren (11), staff members and board members, scholars and politicians who learned from and benefited from her tameless passion for living and changing the world-for the better.
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The stanza's concluding couplet, however, with its assertion that "A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed/One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud" (55-56), signals that the process of self-forgetting is not complete.
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007
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One too like thee — tameless, and swift, and proud.
Anne Rouse reads Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” 2006
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One too like thee — tameless, and swift, and proud.
Anne Waldman reads “Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley 2006
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One too like thee — tameless, and swift, and proud.
2006 » May 2006
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One too like thee — tameless, and swift, and proud.
2006 » August 2006
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His whole person, bearing, and frame bore out the impression of a tameless spirit.
A Woman of Thirty 2007
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In their blood was the deluge of the tameless river
Archive 2006-07-01 Abhay N 2006
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He broke down at the sight of it, and when the guard came to fetch the tameless convict, they found him on his knees in a corner, sobbing like a child.
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'You name me leopardess: remember, the leopardess is tameless,' said she.
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