debar
verb (used with object)
to shut out or exclude from a place or condition.
have debarred
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present perfectof debar.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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If such interests had been involved, a rule from which I have never as a minister diverted would have debarred me from writing.”
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by John Morley
But he was as much the author of Catholic Emancipation as Cobden was the author of Free Trade, and that fact alone should have debarred Froude from the use of this extravagant language.
From The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul
By clinging to the cord of idle fancy they have debarred themselves from the Sure Handle.
From Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh
Ever since I have had some Knowledge of the Matter, I have debarred my Prentice from Pen, Ink and Paper.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Joseph Addison
Mme. de Pompadour's good graces which she never wholly withdrew from him had given him a certain position of influence and power, from which his lack of wealth would otherwise have debarred him.
From Petticoat Rule by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
