fetter
noun
a chain or shackle placed on the feet.
fettering
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present participleof fetter.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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With iron censorship fettering the Press last week, shocking reports circulated by word of mouth throughout the Peninsula and the Isles of Greece.
From Time Magazine Archive
In fact, this is not aid but a handout of leftovers from the master's table made conditional upon fettering obligations .
From Time Magazine Archive
No wonder she flies from his fettering arms!
From Three Women by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
He attributes the origin of metre to the fact that the mind makes a conscious effort to hold passion in check by fettering it with regular numbers.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
In sacred subjects the law was inflexible, and religion, which has frequently done so much for the development and direction of taste in sculpture, had the effect of fettering the genius of Egyptian artists.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
