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    To make matters worse, it seems that our greatest authors, due to some deep-rooted sense of tradition or a complete lack of imagination, constrained themselves to the use of thirty given names.  (source)
    constrained = limited
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    The scientists may wish to constrain you.  (source)
    constrain = restrict or limit actions
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    It seemed that we were all cloaked in an unwelcome garment of racial difference that constrained, confined, and restricted us.  (source)
    constrained = limited in actions
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    The Frenchmen smiled, but their manner was constrained and they seemed in no mood to get drunk.  (source)
    constrained = inhibited
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    Outer circumstances can constrain us.†  (source)
    constrain = restrict
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    Near upon my close Of mortal life, through much importuning I was constrain'd to wear the hat that still From bad to worse it shifted.†  (source)
    constrain'd = restricted; or lacking spontaneity
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    [He constrains FAUST to step into the circle.†  (source)
    constrains = restricts
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    Excellent at constraining evil spirits, isn't it?  (source)
    constraining = restricting
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    I kept to the main streets, the more prosperous areas: even within those confines, there were not really very many places where I felt unconstrained.  (source)
    unconstrained = free to act without restriction
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconstrained means not and reverses the meaning of constrained. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Ralph glanced sideways, smiled constrainedly as though he had forgotten that Simon had made a fool of himself, then looked away again at nothing.†  (source)
    constrainedly = in a way that is restricted; or lacking in spontaneity
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    32:18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.†  (source)
    constraineth = restricts or forces someone to do something
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She constraineth" in older English, today we say "She constrains."
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    The correspondence between George and his guardian had not ceased by any means: William had even written once or twice to her since his departure, but in a manner so unconstrainedly cold that the poor woman felt now in her turn that she had lost her power over him and that, as he had said, he was free.†  (source)
    unconstrainedly = in a way that is not restricted or lacking in spontaneity
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconstrainedly means not and reverses the meaning of constrainedly. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    constrainings seize thee; I see!†  (source)
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