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untrammeled

Postby magi » Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:17 pm

untrammeled
adj.

Not limited or restricted; unrestrained.
Not even the five fingers of our hands are alike.
--Afghan proverb
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Postby Slava » Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:01 pm

My enthusiasm for seeing this word added to our list is untrammeled. Should it be taken up as is, or gotten to via trammel, its root? Lots of nice stuff there.
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Re: untrammeled

Postby Slava » Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:53 pm

Trammel came up today in a crossword puzzle, as the answer to the clue 'ensnare'. It caught me unawares, as I was thinking only of the untouched/unspoiled idea of untrammeled, not the netted and entangling idea of trammeled. I'd forgotten that untrammeled meant something more, and that trammeled isn't the opposite of untrammeled in that meaning. Or is it? The on-line dictionary I'm looking at doesn't make that clear.
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