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Definition of Prevented
1. prevent [v] - See also: prevent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prevented
Literary usage of Prevented
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"At the last he was prevented by a most serious malady from seeing her once more ;
but he was not unmindful of her death, though the lines which he wrote ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen (1885)
"At the last he was prevented by a most serious malady from seeing her once more ;
but he was not unmindful of her death, though the lines which he wrote ..."
3. Jane Austen's Works by Jane Austen, James Edward Austen-Leigh (1882)
"... she was left, on the contrary, with a melancholy impression of Colonel Brandon's
unhappiness, and was prevented even from wishing it removed, ..."