Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not restrained by the reins or bridle. Not held in proper sway or subjection; unchecked.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unrein .
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Examples
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Across the ridgeless wavelengths of an unreined ocean,
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More like that they relished the thought of unreined carnage.
Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998
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Never could he have imagined that ruthless beauty, had not a billion years of unreined chance and blind will to live shaped it for him.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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How true, alas! is the poet's word: 'How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition!'
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Up to the watering-trough Ree drove, however, and unreined the horse, that it might drink.
Far Past the Frontier W. H. [Illustrator] Fry 1913
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We were just in a little grove, and grandpa stopped and unreined the horses and fed 'em and said, "We'll have our lunch here."
Mitch Miller Edgar Lee Masters 1909
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Overhead was the inky dome of the heavens, and below fire; fire, and men with passions unreined.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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When the mad winds are unreined, wilt thou not storm, my sea?
The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons Ernest Christopher Dowson 1883
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Men and mariners may build their bulwarks, but hazard and the sea will overthrow and wear away both alike at their will -- their wild and unreined will, which no foresight can foresee, no strength can bridle.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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His imagination, now unreined, indulged itself in the creation and invention of various hypotheses.
The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler David Brewster 1824
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