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1760.  D. Mallet, in Derrick, Lett. (1767), II. 23. Much more so as… your access to them [is] unimpeded.

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1795.  Southey, Vis. Maid of Orleans, I. 79. Through the roof … The moonbeams enter’d … With unimpeded light.

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1861.  Mill, Repr. Govt., 52. Whatever invigorates the faculties,… creates an increased desire for their more unimpeded exercise.

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1878.  Bosw. Smith, Carthage, 388. It gave them an unimpeded landing, and a second base of operations in Africa.

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  Hence Unimpededly adv.

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  Also, in recent use, unimpededness.

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1846.  Poe, A. C. Mowatt, Wks. 1864, III. 43. The mere instruments by which she may effectively and unimpededly lay bare to the audience the movements of her own passionate heart.

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1895.  G. Matheson, Searchings in the Silence (ed. 2), xlii. 105–6. The satisfaction of a desire is not its death, but its unimpededness.

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