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estop

[e-stop] / ɛˈstɒp /


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By voting for our opponents, such of us as do it in some measure estop ourselves to complain of their acts, however glaringly wrong we may believe them to be.

From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 by Abraham Lincoln

Sige's theoretical knowledge of war and his experience were then felt to be so overshadowing to everybody else's as to estop criticism.

From The Struggle for Missouri by John McElroy

Oh, we estop sometimes, but no for long.

From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Such was alien to his kindly nature; and if it had not been, there were other causes to estop him from any such indulgence.

From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by William Henry Sparks

I replied, "O my lord, can a slipper estop the flowing of a water that feedeth a Hammam?"

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

No matter how glibly presented, however, an “evolved” legal position may be estopped.

From Slate Oct. 28, 2019

The seven estopped companies are: Commonwealth Telephone Co., a subsidiary of Associated Telephone Utilities Co., serving in Wisconsin communities against 102 served by A. T. & T.'s unit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Receipt of the Message in confidence automatically estopped all news speculation as to its contents.

From Time Magazine Archive

“And he’d be all, ‘Well, we were playeeng un concierto een the palacio weeth Esteban and Julio, and then we estopped when thee pretty lady came een.’”

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

They are estopped," said he, "both by matter of record and matter in pais.

From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

Every stilted phrase, every estopping, restraining word of its redundancy, was like a bar between him and his hopes.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day




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