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She is fettered by old ideas whose time has passed.fettered = hindered (held back)
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the law would fetter the free press
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It was Artemis, but she was wrapped in chains, fettered to the rocks. (source)fettered = shackled (restrained with chains)
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And thus your freedom when ... becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom. (source)fetter = restraining shackles
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A moment more and I had fettered him to the granite. (source)fettered = chained
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"You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. (source)fettered = in shackles (with the ankles or feet chained)
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The clanking of fetters and the rattling of chains in the prison, (source)fetters = a shackle for the ankles
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And is therefore blinkered and fettered by the limitations of your kind.† (source)fettered = restrained or hindered
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so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, (source)unfettered = unrestrained or unhinderedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unfettered means not and reverses the meaning of fettered. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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We had in Norway a genuine Baroque poet called Fetter Dass, who lived from 1647 to 1707.† (source)Fetter = restrain or hinder
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Yet the ploughman behind his plough, though the snow lay on his ragged great-coat, and the cold clinging mud rose on his heavy boots, fettering him like gyves, whistled in the very beard of the gale.† (source)fettering = restraining or hindering
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My limbs are fetter'd.† (source)
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CANTO XXVIII WHO, e'en in words unfetter'd, might at full Tell of the wounds and blood that now I saw, Though he repeated oft the tale?† (source)unfetter'd = unrestrained"Editor's Notes"The prefix "un-" in unfetter'd means not and reverses the meaning of fetter'd. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky. Today, this is more commonly spelled unfettered.
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Like a paw ripping through all the stable fibres of the earth, power, gigantic, fetterless, thudded into day!† (source)fetterless = without restraintsstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in fetterless means without and reverses the meaning of fetter. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
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The fun fetters, from national and international leaders, sometimes hostile, sometimes friendly, always diplomatically trying to pry into Demosthenes' mind—those she and Peter read together, laughing in delight sometimes that people like this were writing to children, and didn't know it.† (source)fetters = restrains or hinders OR shackles for the ankles
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The majority of people might agree with them, but the majority is fettered.† (source)fettered = restrained or hindered
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