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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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
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
An ascendency hereditary and dominant, capable of utmost good, but expressed in the fettering of initiative and action, in the suppression of ambition, and the quenching of every impulse toward independence of thought.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
So, in great compositions, golden threads spun from sunshine move between the music and the inspiring poetry, light and swaying, adorning both arts, fettering neither.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
"To make her sleep?" exclaimed Ormond, in a fettering and affrighted accent.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
