enjoinder
Americannoun
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a prohibition by injunction.
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an emphatic directive or order.
Etymology
Origin of enjoinder
Example Sentences
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In part, Margera is seeking damages, court costs, restitution for the defendants’ use of Margera’s intellectual property and an enjoinder preventing the release of “Jackass Forever.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2021
As she poured the liquid, with unsteady fingers, a partial echo of her father's impetuous enjoinder swept through her mind.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
"May I be thy ransom!" answered I. "I needed no enjoinder of this."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John
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