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- noun Plural form of
manacle . - noun plurale tantum A plurale tantum with same meanings as
manacle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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What that means was that when the end of that session of court came, Mr. Hall, instead of being out on bail and going home, would go to jail and would be brought down the next day in manacles and be in manacles, and go back to jail the next night.
A Look At America 1958
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He should have had to sit on stage in manacles. pseudonymous in nc Says:
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His manacles were a constant, a twenty-four-hour-a-day weight his body grudgingly accepted in spite of the rawness and swelling caused by the dig of unforgiving metal.
Honorbound Taylor, Laura 1988
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Noting the "manacles" and advocating them are two different things.
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009
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But, it is always fascinating to read how regular defenders of dictatorships (like the kapitein) want to tell the US how the removal of an atrocious tyranny actually should be done with "manacles".
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009
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"manacles," "leg-irons," etc., etc. "Pistols" (brass) appear in early inventories, but their absence in the early hand-to-hand encounter at
The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete Azel Ames 1876
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"manacles," or poles with leathern yokes, and driven through the city streets by a band of forty boys.
Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874
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The key terms that Hitchens uses to describe that worldview are familiar in the rhetoric of atheism: superstition, false consolation, "mind-forged manacles of servility," "stultifying pseudo-science," and of course, the blandishments of organized religion.
Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake Deepak Chopra 2011
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"It is these forces among others which will speed the day when humanity emancipates itself from the mind-forged manacles of servility and superstition."
Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake Deepak Chopra 2011
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"It is these forces among others which will speed the day when humanity emancipates itself from the mind-forged manacles of servility and superstition."
Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake Deepak Chopra 2011
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