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Definition
restricted; or lacking spontaneity
or typically archaic: to force someone to do something
or typically archaic: to force someone to do something
- For with little external to constrain us, the innermost necessities in our being, these still drive us on.Chapters 34-36 -- The Cabin-Table; The Mast-Head; The Qarter-Deck--Ahab and all (90% in)
- But all we said, not a word could we drag out of him; I almost felt like pushing him over, so as to change his position, for it was almost intolerable, it seemed so painfully and unnaturally constrained; especially, as in all probability he had been sitting so for upwards of eight or ten hours, going too without his regular meals.Chapters 16-18 -- The Ship; The Ramadan; His Mark (72% in)
- The fetid closeness of the air, and a famishing diet, united perhaps to some fears of ultimate retribution, had constrained them to surrender at discretion.Chapters 52-54 -- The Albatross; The Gam; The Town-Ho's Story (68% in)
There are no more uses of "constrained" in Moby Dick.
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