restrainer
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Hugh Jackson Lawlor
The snake or dragon killed by Indra is Vritra, the restrainer, who catches and keeps in the clouds the rain that is falling to earth.
From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins
