Both Uses of
constrained
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- A natural force, unconstrained, and not merely ignorant either; prepared for the worst—and sometimes it had come—and she had survived.†
Chpt 12 *unconstrained = not restricted; or uninhibitedstandard 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.
- There are merely unconstrained acts of holy love and hate, that is to say, of life and death, both of which are selfless, and between them ...†
Chpt 21
Definitions:
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(1)
(constrained) restricted or inhibited
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely (and archaically), constrain can mean to force someone to do something.