- present participle of debar.
debarring
Example Sentences
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No longer the lean ascetic, debarring his soul of her rightful pleasures; but embracing all the joys of life, and combining pleasure with knowledge.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
Albeit a judicial trial or censure be indeed necessary, for inflicting punishment or censure upon men, yet it is not necessary for avoiding association with them, or debarring them from trust.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
And did you ever find yourself and that person politely dancing before each other for a minute or so, debarring each other's progress, because, unhappily, both your thoughts led you in the same direction?
From Molly Bawn by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
When, after defection, gracious reforming kings arose, and had to do against foreign invasion, we find them not debarring any subjects, but calling them out promiscuously.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
"Why, what under the sun do you want, Happy?" she asked, going into her own room and debarring all the others whose curiosity was at the snapping point.
From Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson
