All 3 Uses of
prevent
in
The Importance of Being Earnest
- It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up.†
Act 1prevents = stops (something from happening)
- But although she may prevent us from becoming man and wife, and I may marry some one else, and marry often, nothing that she can possibly do can alter my eternal devotion to you.†
Act 1prevent = stop (something from happening)
- The last time I delivered it was in the Cathedral, as a charity sermon on behalf of the Society for the Prevention of Discontent among the Upper Orders.†
Act 2 *prevention = the act or process of stopping something from happening
Definition:
to stop (something from happening)