Definition of "non-restraint" [non-restraint]

• Freedom from restraint: noting the treatment of insanity without strapping, the use of the strait-jacket, or the like. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The so-called non-restraint system, popularized by Robert Gardiner Hill and John Conolly in England, aroused considerable interest in the United States."
• "This arrangement of unchecked non-restraint has bred politicians and public officials who appear to consider it their private matter how they spend -- I would almost say waste the state's money."
• "Benjamin Rotch and Henry Pownall, of the Middlesex magistrates, dedicated the asylum to non-restraint and promised that no hand or foot would be bound here, while a writer in the Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology hoped that the interior of the asylum would not be permitted to remain so dead and prison-like as those we find at present in our public asylums."