Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of restraining.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of restraining.
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- noun The act of
restraining .
Etymologies
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restrain + -ment
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Examples
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So again, the wings, which used to be so fleet to go downwards with the weight of matter, are kept in restrainment, and the sweet augers which are the efficacious assaults of the gracious enemy, who has been for so long time kept back, and excluded, a stranger and a pilgrim, never cease to wound, soliciting the affections and awakening thought.
The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the Second An Ethical Poem Giordano Bruno 1574
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As the chief executive of Hualien, Fu has to abide by the law of restrainment that prohibits appointments of next of kin to public offices.
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