restrainer

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Philosopher, lawyer, teacher, former tackle for the Williams College "Ephmen" and compulsive thrasher in smooth waters, Bennett has clapped a restrainer on his formidable tongue until the confirmation hearings.

From Time Magazine Archive

The decisive fifth came in 1962, when the ailing judicial restrainer, Felix Frankfurter, retired, to be succeeded by President Kennedy's gung-ho Labor Secretary, Arthur Goldberg.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, the "guilt" that Freud never satisfactorily explained is one built-in restrainer.

From Time Magazine Archive

For he was zealous, and yet not wanting in knowledge, the restrainer of zeal.

From St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh by Lawlor, Hugh Jackson

The law, however, is a great restrainer, and helps to keep the death- rate from reaching excessive proportions.

From Revenge! by Barr, Robert