Definition of Refrained

1. Verb. (past of refrain) ¹

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Definition of Refrained

1. refrain [v] - See also: refrain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Refrained

refractory metal
refractory metals
refractory period of electronic pacemaker
refractory pot
refractory rhyme
refractory rickets
refractory state
refracts
refracture
refractured
refractures
refracturing
refragable
refrain
refrained (current term)
refrainer
refrainers
refrainest
refraineth
refraining
refrainment
refrainments
refrains
reframe
reframed
reframer
reframers
reframes
reframing

Literary usage of Refrained

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"But the power he represented was a mere preponderance, which would only last so long as the six provinces refrained from combining against Holland, ..."

2. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"But the power he represented was a mere preponderance, which would only last so long as the six provinces refrained from combining against Holland, ..."

3. History of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1899)
"the secular magistrate refrained, at least in England, after they had become the province of a separate jurisdiction. Excommunication still continued the ..."

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