ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Unclogged, unimpeded. (Common from c. 1850.)
a. 1699. J. Beaumont, Psyche, IX. lxxxix. Their free unhamper’d Contemplations towre Up to the crest of their divine desires.
1734. E. Erskine, Serm., Wks. (1791), 118. A full, free, and unhampered offer.
1882. Bryce, Manitoba, i. 23. He [Selkirk] would start unhampered by old conditions and pre-existing enactments, he would found a colony on the virgin soil to work out a destiny of its own.
