All 3 Uses of
constraint
in
Les Miserables
- They understood, with an admirable delicacy of instinct, that certain cares may be put under constraint.
Chpt 1.1constraint = something that limits something else
- An indescribable constraint, weariness, and humiliation were perceptible beneath this hardihood.
Chpt 3.8 *
- There had always existed, as the reader knows, a lofty wall, a coldness and a constraint between them; ice which must be broken or melted.
Chpt 5.7
Definition:
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(constraint) limitation (something that limits something else)