| 单词 | under restraint |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunder restraint a. Deprivation or restriction of a person's liberty; confinement, imprisonment. Frequently under restraint. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > [noun] safety?a1400 detentc1465 custodyc1503 straina1510 safeguard1528 violence?1535 safe custody1536 restrainta1547 detention?1570 retention1572 constraint1590 sickerness1678 deportation1909 a1547 Earl of Surrey Poems (1964) 26 Thus I alone..In pryson pyne with bondage and restraynt. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 52 Th' infranchisement of Arthur, whose restraint Doth moue the murmuring lips of discontent [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1643 Brief Narr. Late Treacherous Designe 3 M. Waller, M. Tompkins, M. Challenor, M. Hazell, and other persons, principall Actors in the same, now under restraint. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 240 'Tis not Restraint or Liberty That makes men prisoners or free. 1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman ii. 39 Restraint from Ill is Freedom to the Wise. 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women II. xi. 193 Perpetual restraint is perpetual wretchedness. 1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles Introd. ii. 17 Continually we behold in the world around us lower laws held in restraint by higher. 1857 J. Ruskin Two Paths v. 244 You will find..that it is his Restraint which is honourable to man, not his Liberty. 1930 W. S. Churchill My Early Life xx. 273 If you have never been under restraint before and never known what it was to be a captive, you feel a sense of constant humiliation in being confined to a narrow space. 1990 C. Cussler Dragon (1991) ii. 28 Captain thinks Mr. Yamada has suffered nervous breakdown and has ordered him placed under restraint in his quarters. < as lemmas |
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