All 5 Uses of
injunction
in
Bleak House
- —ranged in a line, in a long matted well (but you might look in vain for truth at the bottom of it) between the registrar's red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters' reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them.†
Chpt 1-3
- It laid the injunction on me that I should never propose to see the writer, who had long been estranged from all intercourse with the world, but who would see a confidential agent if I would appoint one.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- "Where is your son George, Mrs. Rouncewell?" asks Sir Leicester, Mrs. Rouncewell, not a little alarmed by his disregard of the doctor's injunctions, replies, in London.†
Chpt 58-60
- Volumnia tremblingly protests that she will observe his injunctions to the letter.†
Chpt 58-60
- We knew full well that her fervent heart was as full of affection and gratitude towards her cousin John as it had ever been, and we acquitted Richard of laying any injunctions upon her to stay away; but we knew on the other hand that she felt it a part of her duty to him to be sparing of her visits at our house.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(injunction) a command from the court -- usually to prohibit someone from doing or continuing to do something