All 4 Uses of
fetter
in
Sense and Sensibility
- The shortness of his visit, the steadiness of his purpose in leaving them, originated in the same fettered inclination, the same inevitable necessity of temporizing with his mother.†
Chpt 19 *fettered = restrained or hindered
- Or at least, if she did not bring herself quite to rejoice in Edward's being fettered to Lucy, she determined, that had Lucy been more amiable, she OUGHT to have rejoiced.†
Chpt 35
- And even now, I cannot comprehend on what motive she acted, or what fancied advantage it could be to her, to be fettered to a man for whom she had not the smallest regard, and who had only two thousand pounds in the world.†
Chpt 49
- And at any rate, she lost nothing by continuing the engagement, for she has proved that it fettered neither her inclination nor her actions.†
Chpt 49
Definition:
to restrain or hinder
or more archaically:
a shackle for the ankles
or more archaically:
a shackle for the ankles