Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Free from fetters or restraint; unfettered.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Free from fetters.
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- adjective Without
fetters .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Like a paw ripping through all the stable fibres of the earth, power, gigantic, fetterless, thudded into day!
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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Like a paw ripping through all the stable fibres of the earth, power, gigantic, fetterless, thudded into day!
Call It Sleep 2009
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Over him the April clouds were fetterless vagabonds whose gaiety made him shrug with excitement and take a curb with a frisk as gambolsome as a Central Park lamb.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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Their swords have gone forth on the fetterless air!
War Poetry of the South Various
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The grief, the passionate, vain tenderness of Adèle, somehow seems to sanctify the memory of the dead one who lies before him, her great wealth of hair streaming dank and fetterless over the floor.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various
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Miscellaneous. (continued) 8345Oh the heart is a free and a fetterless thing,
Quotations 1919
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QUOTATION: Oh the heart is a free and a fetterless thing,
Quotations 1919
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Over him the April clouds were fetterless vagabonds whose gaiety made him shrug with excitement and take a curb with
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Over him the April clouds were fetterless vagabonds whose gaiety made him shrug with excitement and take a curb with a frisk as gambolsome as a Central Park lamb.
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As one who pauses at the threshold of some fabled palace of the houri, so did I stop, bewildered by the beauty of this virgin field of love, by fancy decked with blossoms, now spreading all the allurements of fetterless imaginings before me.
The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV Harris Dickson 1907
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