Restraints is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RESTRAINTS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• RESTRAINT, the act of restraining
• a measure or condition that keeps someone or something under control
• the action of keeping someone or something under control
• deprivation or restriction of personal liberty or freedom of movement
• a device which limits or prevents freedom of movement
• unemotional, dispassionate, or moderate behaviour; self-control
• understatement, especially of artistic expression
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an act of restraining; the state of being restrained a means of restraining; a restraining force or influence; a device that restricts movement

Words related to RESTRAINTS

restraint9

Words that contain RESTRAINTS

unrestraints12

How to use RESTRAINTS in a sentence

• Social laws, which mark the decent restraints of print, speech and dress, have in recent decades been increasingly disregarded.
• Old laws and restraints were no longer of any account.
• The assault that actually occurred, was one of those uncontrollable outbreakings of Indian ferocity, that have so often set at defiance the restraints of discipline.
• His mind was equally free from all the restraints of superstition.
• In her youth, notwithstanding the restraints put upon her sex, she acquired a liberal education, and made herself mistress of the Latin, Greek, Egyptian, and Syriac literature.
• CHARMS OF DYAK WOMEN Dyak girls are not subjected to any such restraints, and in some respects they enjoy more liberty than is good for them.
• He rebelled against the restraints imposed by his own people behind him exactly as he felt impelled to attack the alien peoples in front of him.
• With many irksome restraints, conditions, and responsibilities imposed on the master, it had no equivalent advantages.
• But in providing for their welfare, we are to exert influences and impose restraints suited to their character.
• Luther quarreled with his church and broke away from its restraints.
• In order to conciliate her good will, he imposed few restraints upon her.
• The restraints then necessary, are restraints from plunder, from acts of publick violence, and undisguised oppression.
• The magnificence of the courtiers, free from such restraints as prudence imposed on the ladies, was yet more unbounded.
• If carried to excess, civilization will prove as prolific a source of evil as it had been of goodness when kept within the restraints of moderation.
• Our attitude towards music is typical of our carelessness towards all those things which make for common joy and for the restraints of higher civilization on the streets.
• Besides employing the two terrible courts of star chamber and high commission, whose powers were unlimited, Queen Elizabeth exerted her authority by restraints upon the press.
• Indignant at the restraints which Parliament set upon his power, he dissolved this body and ruled alone.
• No restraints were laid on the Fancy and the Imagination.
• It may be very possible that good intentions do really sometimes exist when constitutional restraints are disregarded.
• The answer is, We cannot obtain our own good without having regard to others, and undergoing the restraints prescribed by morality.
• Again, when their parents are ill, they are taught to cultivate pity, and are also subjected to unusual restraints.
• But you, who began with refusing to submit to the most moderate restraints, have ended by establishing an unheard-of despotism.
• They consider also too frequently the laws of religion as barbarous restraints, and which their new notions of civilized refinement may relax at will.
• To the individual restraints is added the conviction of social responsibility and the whole determination of chastity is reinforced by social sanctions.
• Restraints again are placed on the unconstitutional action of the Imperial or Federal Parliament.
• Restraints ineffective for the protection either of British interests or of individual freedom may be intensely irritating to national sentiment.

Similar words containing STRAINT without suffix s and without prefix re

straint7 straints8 distraint10 restraint9 constraint12 distraints11 constraints13 unrestraint11 unconstraint14 unrestraints12 unconstraints15

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