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UNRESERVEDLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unreservedly mean?
• UNRESERVEDLY (adverb)
The adverb UNRESERVEDLY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: UNRESERVEDLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without reservation
Context example:
I can unreservedly recommend this restaurant!
Context examples
Suddenly this morning it occurred to me that you were the man to advise me, so I have hurried to you now, and I place myself unreservedly in your hands.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Diana and Mary approved the step unreservedly.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The old man paused and then continued, ‘If you will unreservedly confide to me the particulars of your tale, I perhaps may be of use in undeceiving them.’
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Mr Elliot talks unreservedly to Colonel Wallis of his views on you, which said Colonel Wallis, I imagine to be, in himself, a sensible, careful, discerning sort of character; but Colonel Wallis has a very pretty silly wife, to whom he tells things which he had better not, and he repeats it all to her.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
When, according to our old custom, we sat before the fire at night, we often fell into this train; as naturally, and as consciously to each other, as if we had unreservedly said so.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Jane, you are docile, diligent, disinterested, faithful, constant, and courageous; very gentle, and very heroic: cease to mistrust yourself—I can trust you unreservedly.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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