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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
frain .
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Examples
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Although this court has refrained frained from any attempt to define the limits of that power, yet it has distinctly recognized the authority of a state to enact quarantine laws and ‘health laws of every description;’ indeed, all laws that relate to matters completely within its territory and which do not by their necessary operation affect the people of other states.
The Volokh Conspiracy » I’ll say it if Justice Souter Won’t: 2009
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He could suspect several reasons for their interest in him but re-frained from mentioning any.
Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995
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We all remember the parable about those who were bidden to the feast of the king but who re - frained from coming for various reasons.
Max Heindel's Letters to Students by The Rosicrucian Fellowship 1910
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• See Hindoo Phllofophy, Sketch X. frained GENERAL REFLECTIONS.
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'frained from exhibiting more modern charters; yet, that he has not gone farther back than Dun - can C 5 3
An Introduction to Mr James Anderson's Diplomata Scotiæ.: To which is Added Notes, Taken from ... 1773
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