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Webster 1828 Edition

, ppr.

Holding back from proceeding; checking; repressing; hindering from motion or action; suppressing.

a. Abridging; limiting; as a restraining statute.

restraining

restraining ‎(plural restrainings)

The act by which someone or something is restrained.
- George Meredith
  She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said; […]