fettering

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of fetter

plural fetterings

1. The act by which something is fettered or constricted.

   Through this book's exploration of various kinds of fetterings and of one method for thinking beyond them, I want to demonstrate the unique and unfettered hope of the Christian faith.

   2003, Marva J. Dawn, Unfettered Hope, page xii

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   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.

   1927, Bertrand Russell, “What We Must Do”, in Why I Am Not a Christian