All 6 Uses of
fetter
in
Faust
- And yet, the struggle fails; since Light, howe'er it weaves, Still, fettered, unto bodies cleaves: It flows from bodies, bodies beautifies; By bodies is its course impeded; And so, but little time is needed, I hope, ere, as the bodies die, it dies!†
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- Sweet pain of love, bind thou with fetters fleet The heart that on the dew of hope must pine!†
- She falters on, her way scarce knowing, As if with fettered feet that stay her going.†
- Mighty, glorious Spirit, who hast vouchsafed to me Thine apparition, who knowest my heart and my soul, why fetter me to the felon-comrade, who feeds on mischief and gluts himself with ruin?†
- He takes hold of the fetters to unlock them.†
- She springs to her feet: the fetters fall off.†
Definition:
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(fetter) to restrain or hinder
or more archaically:
a shackle for the ankles