Both Uses of
fetter
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- The grey block of Trinity on his left, set heavily in the city's ignorance like a dull stone set in a cumbrous ring, pulled his mind downward and while he was striving this way and that to free his feet from the fetters of the reformed conscience he came upon the droll statue of the national poet of Ireland.†
Chpt 5
- To discover the mode of life or of art whereby your spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.†
Chpt 5 *
Definition:
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(fetter) to restrain or hinder
or more archaically:
a shackle for the ankles