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Where is their evidence that manacling our language to past usage is at all helpful or necessary?

From The Guardian • Jun. 12, 2010

Before this conception we might well shudder, for its irons are secretly manacling our own limbs.

From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John

Flashing his torch round, Tom noticed that the flooring had been worn and chipped away, no doubt in the process of manacling, and scattered about there was a large quantity of loose particles of brick.

From King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane by Strang, Herbert

President Johnson held Jefferson Davis in long imprisonment, with the aggravation not only of close confinement and even a temporary manacling, but of a public accusation of complicity in the murder of Lincoln.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring

And call the house-bride, homewards bring Maid yearning for new married fere, Her mind with fondness manacling, As the tough ivy here and there 35Errant the tree enwinds.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir