All 4 Uses of
constraint
in
Bleak House
- I look forward, my dear, to our meeting easily and without constraint on either side.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- If he would only have brushed up his hair or turned up his collar, it would have been bad enough; but to know that that absurd figure was always gazing at me, and always in that demonstrative state of despondency, put such a constraint upon me that I did not like to laugh at the play, or to cry at it, or to move, or to speak.†
Chpt 13-15
- But as he reflects when he is left alone, the woman has been putting no common constraint upon herself.†
Chpt 40-42
- There being not the least constraint in his manner, there was none (or I think there was none) in mine.†
Chpt 43-45
Definition:
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(constraint) limitation (something that limits something else)