restrainer

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

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

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 governor and the governed, the restrainer and the restrained, can never as such be identical.

From The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny by Brownson, Orestes Augustus

Must a restrainer be resorted to, 1 to 3 min. of a 1:10 solution of potassium bromide is quite sufficient.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 by Various