All 3 Uses of
injunction
in
War and Peace
- Since early morning—despite an injunction not to approach the picket line—the officers had been unable to keep sight-seers away.†
Chpt 2 *
- The steward did not say it was quite impossible, but suggested selling the forests in the province of Kostroma, the land lower down the river, and the Crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which operations according to him were connected with such complicated measures—the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so on—that Pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: "Yes, yes, do so."†
Chpt 5
- What would Sonya have done without the glad consciousness that she had not undressed during the first three nights, in order to be ready to carry out all the doctor's injunctions with precision, and that she still kept awake at night so as not to miss the proper time when the slightly harmful pills in the little gilt box had to be administered?†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(injunction) a command from the court -- usually to prohibit someone from doing or continuing to do something