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Restriction   /ristrˈɪkʃən/   Listen
Restriction

noun
1.
A principle that limits the extent of something.  Synonym: limitation.
2.
An act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation).  Synonym: limitation.
3.
The act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary).  Synonym: confinement.



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"Restriction" Quotes from Famous Books



... Society of Antiquaries there is one which expels any member "who shall, by speaking, writing, or printing, publicly defame the society." Some things may be too antique and obsolete even for the Society of Antiquaries! and such is this vile restriction! It compromises the freedom of the ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. II (of 3) - Edited, With Memoir And Notes, By His Son, The Earl Of Beaconsfield • Isaac D'Israeli

... the limitations of matter. Now if we may transfer this familiar analogy to our conception of the working of the All-Originating Mind we may picture it as the Great Artist giving visible expression to His feeling by a process which, though subject to no restriction from antecedent conditions, yet works by a Law which is inseparable from the Feeling itself—in fact the Law is the Feeling, and the Feeling is the Law, ...
— The Creative Process in the Individual • Thomas Troward

... no longer depended in any direct sense on Peking for protection. The hypothecation of these revenues to foreigners for periods running into decades— coupled with their administration by foreigners—was such a distinct restriction of the rights of eminent domain as to amount to a partial ...
— The Fight For The Republic In China • B.L. Putnam Weale

... Life and Adventure, for that was what the gold-fields signified to Phillips. Yes, Life! Adventure! He had set out to seek them, to taste the flavor of the world, and there it lay—his world, at least—just out of reach. A fierce impatience, a hot resentment at that senseless restriction which chained him in his tracks, ran through the boy. What right had any one to stop him here at the very door, when just inside great things were happening? Past that white-and-purple barrier which he could see against the sky a new land lay, ...
— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach

... so far been limited to tunes, for which suitable words were to be found in Hymns Ancient & Modern; but by the time that these first tunes were printed, I determined to continue the book free of this restriction, and, from whatever source, to provide words for tunes which I had hitherto been unable to use. I then became aware of a real cause for the absence of most of these tunes from the common hymnals: there were no words of any kind to which ...
— A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing • Robert Bridges


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