Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RE-STRAINT
RE-STRAINT, n. [from Fr. restreint.]
- The act or operation of holding back or hindering from motion, in any manner; hinderance of the will, or of any action, physical, moral or mental.
- Abridgment of liberty; as, the restraint of a man by imprisonment or by duress.
- Prohibition. The commands of God should be effectual restraints upon our evil passions.
- Limitation; restriction. If all were granted, yet it must be maintained, within any bold restraints, far otherwise than it is received. – Brown.
- That which restrains, hinders or represses. The laws are restraints upon injustice.
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