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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Restraint \Re*straint"\, n. [OF. restraincte fr restrainct, F.
restreint, p. p. of restraindre restrendre See {Restrain}.]
1. The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or
hindering from motion or action in any manner; hindrance
of the will or of any action physical or mental.
No man was altogether above the restrains of law,
and no man altogether below its protection.
--Macaulay.
2. The state of being restrained.
3. That which restrains, as a law, a prohibition, or the
like limitation; restriction.
For one restraint, lords of the world besides.
--Milton.
Syn: Repression; hindrance; check; stop; curb;?oercion;
confinement; limitation; restriction.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
restraint
n 1: the act of restraining
2: discipline in personal and social activities; "he was a
model of polite restraint"; "she never lost control of
herself" [syn: {control}] [ant: {unrestraint}]
3: the state of being constrained [syn: {constraint}]
4: lack of ornamentation [syn: {chasteness}, {simplicity}]
5: a device that holds someone or something back from action
[syn: {constraint}]
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