Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Frankness of manner; candor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Absence of reserve; frankness; freedom of communication.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Absence of reverse; frankness; freedom of communication.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A lack or absence of
reserve ;frankness ; freedom of communication.
Etymologies
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Examples
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With the burden of that search upon him, it was not possible for such a nature as his to plunge with the unreserve which is the condition of success into any study which had no direct reference to it.
Life of Father Hecker Walter Elliott 1885
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The two women were soon on terms of perfect unreserve.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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The two women were soon on terms of perfect unreserve.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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The two women were soon on terms of perfect unreserve.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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The two women were soon on terms of perfect unreserve.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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The two women were soon on terms of perfect unreserve.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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With a consciousness of having thus, like Antony, kissed away kingdoms and provinces, he next considered how he had revealed his higher secrets and intentions to her, an unreserve he would never have allowed himself with any man living.
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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As between the Rev. Henry Holyshade and his pupil, the idea of entire unreserve is utter bosh; so the truth as between you and Jeames or Thomas, or Mary the housemaid, or Betty the cook, is relative, and not to be demanded on one side or the other.
Roundabout Papers 2006
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They saw him often, and to his other recommendations was now added that of general unreserve.
Pride and Prejudice 2004
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Mr. Weston was a great favourite, and there was not a creature in the world to whom she spoke with such unreserve, as to his wife; not any one, to whom she related with such conviction of being listened to and understood, of being always interesting and always intelligible, the little affairs, arrangements, perplexities, and pleasures of her father and herself.
Emma 2004
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