英语词汇“confining”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	confining
释义	▪ I. confining, vbl. n.\|kənˈfaɪnɪŋ\| [f. confine v. + -ing¹.] The action of the vb. confine. †a. Bordering; b. Restricting within bounds. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 156 By reason of their neere and dangerous confining with the Great Turke.1608Hieron Wks. I. 685 Set formes of prayer..are aiudged to be a kinde of confining and limiting of Gods Spirit. ▪ II. conˈfining, ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ing².] †1. Bordering, neighbouring, adjoining, adjacent: cf. confine v. i. (Often placed after its noun, as a participle; cf. adjacent, adjoining.) Obs. 1597Daniel Civ. Wares iv. iii, To dallie with confining Potentates.1605Camden Rem. 95 In Normandy and the countries confining.1654Cokaine Dianea i. 57 To raise a great Army would..beget suspicion in his confining Princes. 2. That confines; bounding, limiting, restricting, etc.: see the verb. 1595Shakes. John ii. i. 338 Euen thy confining shores.a1691Boyle (J.), Make one man's fancies or failings, confining laws to others.1887A. Austin Pr. Lucifer in Athenæum 3 Dec. 742/3 By whose fermenting may his fancy rise Beyond the level of confining fact.
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