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Definition
to stop or restrict something
- You have only knowledge enough of the language to translate at sight these inverted, transposed, curtailed Italian lines, into clear, comprehensible, elegant English.Chapter 20 (58% in)
- It was impossible but that Mrs Clay must hate the sight of Mr Elliot; and yet she could assume a most obliging, placid look, and appear quite satisfied with the curtailed license of devoting herself only half as much to Sir Walter as she would have done otherwise.Chapter 22 (11% in)
There are no more uses of "curtail" in Persuasion.
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