2. Verb. (third-person singular of fetter) ¹
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Definition of Fetters
1. fetter [v] - See also: fetter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fetters
Literary usage of Fetters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1860)
"efficacious that the captives were miraculously disencumbered of their fetters,
... but in gratitude ; for he is unencumbered, and his broken fetters are in ..."
2. Memoirs of Modern Philosophers by Elizabeth Hamilton (1804)
"But chained by the cruel fetters which ... Barbarous fetters! cruel chains!
odious flate of ... fetters ..."
3. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England by John Campbell Campbell, Joseph Arnould (1878)
"Away, away! that ought not to be ; that is nothing to this matter."* He likewise
put an end to the revolting practice of trying prisoners in fetters. ..."
4. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"... blasted after the peace by a system of commercial usurpation ; that trade had
been loaded with foreign fetters; enterprise and industry discouraged; ..."
5. A Plea for the West by Lyman Beecher (1835)
"... which ages cannot repair; and who can tell, when the time comes, whether the
power will be too strong for the fetters, or the fetters for the power? ..."
6. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, H. Tetu, Wilfrid Philip Ward (1889)
"The fetters which bound Mr. Ward himself to the Church of England were ...
The fetters, as I have said, were unlocked; he had but to move and they were gone ..."
7. The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke (1866)
"to purchase fetters, or supply them any other way, it is but reasonable that you
should order me to be reimbursed. And why should I add anything more ? ..."
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