Crossword-Solution: RESTRAINS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RESTRAINS | anagram | RISENSTAR, STRAINERS, TRANSIRES |
We have 8 clues for the answer “RESTRAINS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cramps | 1 answer |
| How Poco holds back? | 1 answer |
| Deters | 2 answers |
| Keeps in check | 3 answers |
| Curbs. | 11 answers |
| Holds back. | 16 answers |
| Checks | 34 answers |
| controls | 44 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RESTRAINS (5)
Bourne.] The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.
For the Holy Ghost does not permit sin to have dominion, to gain the upper hand so as to be accomplished, but represses and restrains it so that it must not do what it wishes.
Thus in Scythian climes Cimmerian Bosphorus restrains the deep Bound fast in frosty fetters; Ister's streams (27) No more impel the main, and ships constrained Stand fast in ice; and while in depths below The waves still murmur, loud the charger's hoof Sounds on the surface, and the travelling wheel Furrows a track upon the frozen marsh.
The chain of authority was broken, which restrains the bigot from thinking as he pleases, and the slave from speaking as he thinks: the popes, fathers, and councils, were no longer the supreme and infallible judges of the world; and each Christian was taught to acknowledge no law but the Scriptures, no interpreter but his own conscience.
Nor is it simple terror that restrains the boy from answering his senior with the same freedom and spirit, as he would answer his equal.
Quotes with RESTRAINS (3)
It is not the mere fear of punishment that restrains [man] from sin. Loving and revering God as his father, honouring and obeying Him as his master, although there were no hell, he would revolt at the very idea of offending Him.
Shouldn't we at least be asking whether the transcending of venereal desire that marriage requires of a mostly or entirely 'heterosexual' man who marries for the sake of love, friendship, and raising a family isn't more or less the same as the transcendence required of a man whose venereal desire is 'oriented' mostly or entirely toward men but who restrains these drives, and who marries for the sake of love, friendship and raising a family? Of course, men with little venereal…
Dharma is precisely this 'discipline of ordered existence', a 'belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1958–2017).