fettering

Speech parts

1. fettering - Noun

2. fettering - Verb

Meaning

fettering

present participle of fetter

fettering (plural fetterings)

The act by which something is fettered or constricted.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

ironing tethering chaining cramping hobbling derailing hamstringing trammeling trammelling handcuffing chain up enchainment

Antonyms

bringing breeding engendering spawning liberating begetting

Examples

No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar.. Richard Whately

A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. Bertrand Russell

Close letter words and terms

fettered fetterer Fetterhoff fetterless fetterlessness fetterlock