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Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of manacle.
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French manicle, from Latin manicula, diminutive of manus, hand; see man-2 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“She started to rise, but he climbed on the bed to lie half on her, his arm manacling her waist and his leg trapping one of hers.”
“My own modernisation plan involves manacling two each of the worst 50,000 scrote to the legs of senior officers across the agencies and judges for periods of rehabilitation.”
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“In an essay published 60 years ago, Katharine Balderston claimed to have identified a recurrent motif of manacling and beating, begged for by Johnson and duly administered by his mother substitute.”
“Where is their evidence that manacling our language to past usage is at all helpful or necessary?”
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“Trace walked up to them, his hand manacling the wrist of a spitting-mad young woman—who looked twenty-three or twenty-four years old—wearing only his shirt.”
“His hands came up from manacling my wrists to cradle my head.”
“When she turned, he snatched her wrists behind her, manacling her.”
“The Scotchman swore and demanded if I was wounded; I reassured him, and he promptly abandoned me and hurried off to supervise the apprehension and manacling of our two assailants, who were bleeding all over the shop and being deuced noisy about it - and so far as I could think at all, I was reflecting, well, if this is New York, they may keep it for me.”
“Durban II will provide a forum, not for victims of racism, but for those who shed lachrymose tears for their plight while persecuting Bahais and hanging gay teenagers in Tehran, raping and murdering Black Muslims who happen not to be Arab in Darfur, and manacling prisoners of conscience in the Castro brothers 'Bastilles.”
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“His head has been shaved by the hospital barber, in accordance with eighteenth-century medical practice, and one of the keepers, in blue livery, is manacling his ankles.”
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