Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
debar .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education.
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It followed as one consequence of these letters from Florence that Nora was debarred from the Italian scheme as a mode of passing her time till some house should be open for her reception.
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Certain critics and authors who are quite willing to have the coal-heaver's filthy story debarred from the mails, because it can be understood by coal-heavers, protest against debarring the filthy story of the artist, because only the highly sophisticated can understand it.
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They had no past, no inherited institutions, no stereotyped political theories; they were people who in England at that time would have been largely debarred from the franchise, because they fell below the standards which determined the granting of the franchise.
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Certain critics and authors who are quite willing to have the coal-heaver's filthy story debarred from the mails, because it can be understood by coal-heavers, protest against debarring the filthy story of the artist, because only the highly sophisticated can understand it.
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In savage tribes which have suddenly come under the domination of a civilized race – a domination which usually means not only the cessation of tribal warfare, but a rapid decrease in the raw material of the chase – the male, debarred from the exercise of his former avocations, frequently refuses to do anything at all.
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When dinner came we found that we were debarred from the dining-room.
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Being debarred from the deck by incessant showers of spray, sleet, and snow, and the cold of mid-winter being unbearable in the dark, damp saloon, I went to bed at four for the first two days.
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Can't you ever do that sort of thing now? asked the boy, with a pitying look at these hapless creatures debarred from the joys and perils of manly sports.
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They had for a long series of years been debarred from the privilege of religious worship, and as there was reason to fear that a continued neglect of divine ordinances would draw down upon them the judgments of offended heaven, they begged permission to go three days 'journey into the desert -- a place of seclusion -- where their sacrificial observances would neither suffer interruption nor give umbrage to the
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