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单词 restrainment
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restrainmentn.

Brit. /rᵻˈstreɪnm(ə)nt/, U.S. /rəˈstreɪnm(ə)nt/, /riˈstreɪnm(ə)nt/
Forms: 1500s restrainement, 1500s– restrainment.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: restrain v.1, -ment suffix.
Etymology: < restrain v.1 + -ment suffix. Compare Old French restrendement self-restraint, privation (end of the 12th cent. in an apparently isolated attestation), restraignement repression of the blood-flow (1314), Old Occitan restrenhemen act of shrinking. Compare earlier restraint n., restrain n., restrainedness n., and restraining n.
Now rare.
The action or an act of restraining; restraint.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > [noun]
havingeOE
holdc1230
withholdingc1386
restrainingc1390
refraininga1398
repression?a1425
repressing1431
bridlingc1443
restraint1443
restrainc1449
repressurec1487
restingc1503
abstention1521
controlling1523
controlment1525
distrain1531
staying1563
control1564
refrain1568
retention1578
check1579
restrainment1579
refranation1583
cohibition1586
withholdment1640
curbing1661
coercion1827
chastenment1882
detent1907
clamp-down1940
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 145/1 Without any restrainement or holding backe.
a1627 W. Sclater 3 Serm. (1629) 11 Temporall paines remaine as preuentions, as admonitions, as restrainments.
1688 Enthus. Ch. Rome 40 From the restrainment of his Tears no other effect could follow.
1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xvi. 242 Injurious restrainment at large, and injurious compulsion at large, are here styled simple.
1835 Amer. Q. Rev. Sept. 243 A philosophical work..might do important service.., by inducing the energetic restrainment of excess.
1895 C. Wilkes Sidney Forrester iv. 44 Would she be compelled to wear out a weary existence in such hopeless restrainment?
1958 Jet 31 July 47 A white..self-styled minister was accused..of holding a 13-year old Detroit Negro boy..in restrainment of liberty.
2002 Blackpool Gaz. (Nexis) 2 Oct. Hospital bosses have..changed their policies on restrainment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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