debarring

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Balder had felt her touch, first as a benediction; then it chilled him, through remembrance of a deed forever debarring him from aught so pure and innocent as she.

From Idolatry A Romance by Hawthorne, Julian

May 30.—Prynne continued, in subsequent pamphlets, to attack the Rumpers for the wrong done to him and the other secluded members in still debarring them from their seats.

From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by Masson, David

His parents were Roman Catholics, and to this faith the poet adhered, thus debarring himself from public office and employment.

From An Essay on Criticism by Pope, Alexander

If you abide by it, you deny the Absolute and Infinite in the very act of affirming it, for, in debarring the First Cause from self-revelation, you impose a limit on its nature.

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George

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 Binning, Hugh