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English
Etymology
From un- + hampered.
Adjective
unhampered (comparative more unhampered, superlative most unhampered)
- Not hampered.
- Synonyms: unencumbered, unimpeded; unqualified
1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:"The he won't depart," I replied, and approached still nearer. Rough and narrow ledges formed by nature gave access to the upper caves. A man might scale them if unhampered and unhindered, but to clamber upward in the face of a belligerent tribe of half-men and with a girl to assist was beyond my capability.
1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:The bare arms and thighs and unhampered breasts of young American womanhood are brushing contentedly against him.
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