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constrain Verb 1. to compel or force: he felt constrained to apologize 2. to limit, restrict, or inhibit: the mobility of workers is constrained by the serious housing shortage [Latin constringere to bind together]
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| So it happens with fortune, who shows her power where valour has not prepared to resist her, and thither she turns her forces where she knows that barriers and defences have not been raised to constrain her. Of course it is a sad and sorry thing to have to live among strangers, and to be forced to seek their patronage, and to conceal and constrain one's own personality-- but God will help me. Such another small basin of thin gruel as his own was all that he could, with thorough selfapprobation, recommend; though he might constrain himself, while the ladies were comfortably clearing the nicer things, to say: |
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