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  • adjective Obsolete spelling of uncontrolled.

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Examples

  • Thus, unchecked by ourselves, and uncontrouled by the world, this haughty self-importance acquired by time a strength, and by mutual encouragement a firmness, which Miss Beverley alone could possibly, I believe, have shaken!

    Cecilia 2008

  • I am truly sorry to have cause to say, that I have heard it often remarked, that your uncontrouled passions are not a credit to your liberal education.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • In the first ages of the world when Common Sense reigned uncontrouled by the subtleties of philosophy, primary and secondary qualities dwelt peaceably under the same roof and were joynt proprietors of the same subject, body.

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

  • In the first ages of the world when Common Sense reigned uncontrouled by the subtleties of philosophy, primary and secondary qualities dwelt peaceably under the same roof and were joynt proprietors of the same subject, body.

    Primary and Secondary Qualities: A Philosophical Fairy Tale 2005

  • I shall sigh out my soul upon her bosom; Shall teach her young heart the first rudiments of pleasure, and revel uncontrouled in the endless variety of her charms!

    The Monk 2004

  • Greeks and Romans, of indulging, on certain festivals and solemn occasions, the liberty to slaves, of using an uncontrouled freedom of speech towards their masters.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • It seems a little absurd to expect women to be more reasonable than men in their likings, and still to deny them the uncontrouled use of reason.

    A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 2002

  • It is impossible for any man, when the most favourable circumstances concur, to acquire sufficient knowledge and strength of mind to discharge the duties of a king, entrusted with uncontrouled power; how then must they be violated when his very elevation is an insuperable bar to the attainment of either wisdom or virtue; when all the feelings of a man are stifled by flattery, and reflection shut out by pleasure!

    A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 2002

  • The writer's command of language is very great, and he is sometimes apt to exercise his imperial power like other potentates, uncontrouled by judgement or discretion.

    Periodical Indigestion 1997

  • The lieutenant, however, from the general maxim, that the superior officer on board has a right to exercise uncontrouled command, permitted a boat to go on shore with some of the men.

    The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

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