Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for UN-RU'LI-NESS
UN-RU'LI-NESS, n. [from unruly.]
- Disregard of restraint; licentiousness; turbulence; as, the unruliness of men, or of their passions.
- The disposition of a beast to break over fences and wander from an inclosure; the practice of breaking or leaping over fences.
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