debarring
- present participle of debar.
Example Sentences
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For we like to keep our coin up to our own standard, debarring no man from making better for himself.
From The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to their original melodies; with an English version by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey
No longer the lean ascetic, debarring his soul of her rightful pleasures; but embracing all the joys of life, and combining pleasure with knowledge.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward
"It simply excruciates me from you," he had said, thus debarring her from that only appellation which would certainly be the easiest, and which seemed to her the only one becoming.
From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony
The duke had insisted on the incognito as debarring Maximilian from all claim to attention from a prince like himself whose rank was not concealed.
From The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Yonge, Charles Duke
If you abide by it, you deny the Absolute and Infinite in the very act of affirming it, for, in debarring the First Cause from self-revelation, you impose a limit on its nature.
From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George
