ppl. a. (UN-1 8: see STINT v.)

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1480.  Cov. Leet Bk., 438. Þe seid Maire & Recordor maynteyn the … Frankleyns of þe Forreins … contynually to go vnstynted, and the Comons of the Cite be stynted, no man to passe his rate.

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1599.  Sandys, Europæ Spec. (1632), 41. To all such … as should oppose against his Soveraigntie and unstinted power.

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1622.  Callis, Stat. Sewers (1647), 24. A general Law unstinted and unbounded.

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a. 1711.  Ken, Hymn Festiv., Poet. Wks. 1721, I. 410. Saints … crop unstinted Shares In the twelve pleasant Fruits it bears.

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1740.  Somerville, Hobbinol, III. 29. With unstinted Joy His Heart o’erflows.

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1811.  Scott, Don Roderick, I. ix. Lands, where the near Sun Gives with unstinted boon ethereal flame.

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1877.  ‘H. A. Page,’ De Quincey, II. xvi. 20. His unstinted, if not reckless liberality.

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  Hence Unstintedly adv.

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1849.  Rock, Ch. of Fathers, I. i. 8. Both these prelates borrowed unstintedly from the book of St. Osmund.

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1883.  Standard, 13 April, 6/4. General Angus … condemns the management unstintedly.

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