debar
verb (used with object)
to shut out or exclude from a place or condition.
has debarred
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present perfectof debar (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Now, whether in fact any particular Middle Term bears the same meaning in any actual reasoning Formal Logic has debarred itself from inquiring, by deciding that actual meaning was 'psychological.'
From Pragmatism by D. L. Murray
My fate has debarred me from this enjoyment, but you seem in the midst of it.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
It has debarred me from that sereine contemplation de l’univers, wherein my peace and better growth were found.
From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by Paul Elmer More
Hitherto he has debarred the pupils of his Academy, it will have been noticed, from all the ordinary classics read in schools.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson
It has debarred the other part of the community from being individual by putting them on the wrong road, and encumbering them.
From The Soul of Man under Socialism by Oscar Wilde
