Fettering
[fetərɪŋ]
Examples
- If he were not only to sink from his highest resolve, but to sink into the hideous fettering of domestic hate? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She rattled on: My present business is to enjoy youth, and not to think of fettering myself, by promise or vow, to this man or that. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Edited by Jeffrey