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Definition of Fettering
1. fetter [v] - See also: fetter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fettering
Literary usage of Fettering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke (1866)
"... the one described," (namely, the confinement of the princesses, and the
imprisonment and fettering of their ministers,) " upon so respectable a family. ..."
2. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1856)
"The Roman method of fettering and confining criminals was singular. One end of
a chain, that was of commodious length, was fixed about the right arm of the ..."
3. Annals of the American Revolution: Or, A Record of the Causes and Events by Jedidiah Morse (1824)
"... fettering appearance. For this substitute, including all the trank appertaining
to. or conséquent of. the war ..."
4. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"... even though he should have got no valuable consideration for fettering himself;
because it is implied in the nature of property, that the proprietor can ..."
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