ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Unrestricted, unlimited, absolute.
1539. Hen. VIII., in Wyatt’s Wks. (1816), II. 498. He will send to my Lady Regent … full and unreserved power … to … conclude the same upon reasonable conditions.
a. 1729. Rogers, 19 Serm. (1735), 311. An entire unreserved Obedience to his Commands.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 422. We may have an unreserved trust in His mercy.
1771. Junius Lett., lix. (1788), 321. A determination so entire and unreserved.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xiv. A friend,… whose attachment deserved her full and unreserved confidence.
1858. Froude, Hist. Eng., III. 260. Her name is mentioned with unreserved respect.
2. Free from reserve; frank, open.
1713. Pope, Lett. (1735), I. 199. That we have lived many Years together in an unreserved Conversation.
1751. Earl Orrery, Remarks Swift, ii. 15. Her manners were humane, polite, easy, and unreserved.
1827. R. Peel, Lett. to Croker, 3 Oct. In consequence of unreserved communications with you, you were in possession of my opinions.
1884. American, VIII. 277. Mr. Bright was more unreserved in his language.
absol. 1756. Cowper, Wks. (1837), XV. 278. The character of the open and unreserved, who thinks it a breach of friendship to conceal any thing from his intimates.
