- present participle of debar.
debarring
Example Sentences
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"It simply excruciates me from you," he had said, thus debarring her from that only appellation which would certainly be the easiest, and which seemed to her the only one becoming.
From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
By much musing on this matter, I have convinced myself that man is not capable of debarring himself utterly from death, since it is evidently a remedy for many evils that nothing else would cure.
From Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Nathaniel Hawthorne
But even when dying, he retained strength and presence of mind enough to dictate a will, debarring his wife from any share in his property, or any part in the education of the child.
From Vineta The Phantom City by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
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
When the Athenian law debarring all but freemen from the exercise of art was enacted, Creon was at work trying to realize in marble the vision his soul had created.
From Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life by Orison Swett Marden
