1430–40. Lydg., Bochas, III. xx. (1561), 86/1. Their colorike fumes, ye fury vnrestraynable.
1608. Bp. J. King, Serm., 5 Nov., 34. In the timely execution of your Lawes, and … coercion of their vnrestrainable audaciousnesse.
1609. Holland, Amm. Marcell., 187. Like as out of a drie wood the sparkes…, with an unrestrainable course, reach to the daunger of countrey townes.
a. 1711. Ken, Edmund, Poet. Wks. 1721, II. 111. Wonder not that a Virgin makes this Court, Of Love the unrestrainable Effort.
1815. Abernethy, Surg. Obs. (ed. 2), 125, note. An unrestrainable hæmorrhagic tendency.
1863. Mouat, Andaman Islanders, 227. An unrestrainable fit of laughter.
Hence Unrestrainably adv.
1615. Sandys, Trav., 148. A Iew … did poison his sonne, whom he knew to be vnrestrainably lasciuious.
1849. Ruskin, Seven Lamps, i. § 12. 23. There is occasionally a burst upwards and blossoming unrestrainably to the sky.
