Both Uses of
injunction
in
The Age of Innocence
- Everything was equally easy—or equally painful, as one chose to put it—in the path he was committed to tread, and he had obeyed the flurried injunctions of his best man as piously as other bridegrooms had obeyed his own, in the days when he had guided them through the same labyrinth.†
Chpt 19
- Newland and his wife had had no idea of obeying this injunction; but Mrs. Carfry, with her usual acuteness, had run them down and sent them an invitation to dine; and it was over this invitation that May Archer was wrinkling her brows across the tea and muffins.†
Chpt 20 *
Definition:
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(injunction) a command from the court -- usually to prohibit someone from doing or continuing to do something