Barring
['bɑːrɪŋ] or ['bɑrɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto.
Editor: Lois--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bar
Checker: Sophia
Examples
- I heard Sir Percival barring up the window-shutters. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- At various points in the social system there were probably developments of exclusiveness, an actual barring out of interlopers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Barring the proximity of the village, it is a sort of paradise. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- To answer that question, let us very carefully insert a second prism in the path of the rays which issue from the first prism, carefully barring out the remaining six kinds of rays. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- For reply he whipped out his own sword, calling to the others to join him, and thus the four stood, with drawn weapons, barring my further progress. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- At the same time, and barring that slight drawback, I am bound to testify that he was the perfect model of a client. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She stepped forward and faced her tenant, barring his way. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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