ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not shackled or fettered. Also transf.
[1775. Ash.]
1816. Byron, Parisina, xvii. These hands are chain’d, but let me die At least with an unshackled eye.
1821. Scott, Pirate, xli. Cleveland and Bunce … were permitted to walk unshackled.
2. Not restricted or impeded by something.
1776. Burney, Hist. Mus., I. p. xiii. Freedom of thought, unshackled by the trammels of authority.
1782. Miss Burney, Cecilia, III. ii. Surrounded as you are by the opulent and the splendid, unshackled by dependance.
1853. Huxley, in Life & Lett. (1900), I. 115. To be unshackled by anything that may prevent you taking the highest places.
1884. Law Times, 17 May, 42/2. The discretion of the court was unshackled by any obligation of hearing evidence.
b. Unrestricted, unimpeded, unhampered, free.
1796. Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, III. 21. I can desire no one to abstain from pursuing the dictates of their own sense of honour. I leave you, therefore, unshackled.
1820. Byron, Mar. Fal., III. ii. 534. Ages of prosperity and freedom To this unshackled city.
1850. Grote, Greece, II. lxvii. VIII. 450. The full and unshackled force of comedy.
