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Definition of Constrains
1. constrain [v] - See also: constrain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Constrains
Literary usage of Constrains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychologic Foundations of Education: An Attempt to Show the Genesis of the by William Torrey Harris (1898)
"To say that a motive constrains the will is therefore to say that something acts
before it exists; for the motive has only ideal and not actual existence ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The law of love constrains us to rejoice rather than to be distressed at the good
fortune of our neighbour. Besides, such an attitude is a direct ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"The obligation—that which, by a force stronger than his dissenting inclination
or hie repelling Interest, constrains his will or tiee him to the performance ..."
4. The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People by Benjamin and Thomas Kite (Firm)., William Sewel (1823)
"... auricular confession, and other tenets of the church of Rome; and yet Christian
charity constrains us to believe, (though we find Protestant writers who ..."
5. History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagaray (1886)
"... ALL OBSTACLES AND Constrains THE MAYORS TO CAPITULATE. THE Central Committee
was equal to the occasion. Its proclamations, its Socialist articles in the ..."
6. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1852)
"... in space whose light does not reach us because, from their enormous mass,
gravitation constrains the luminous particles to return. — Humboldt's Cosmos. ..."
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