withstraint

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act or process of withstraining; restraint. rare,uncountable
    — Thousands of slaves were better off by far than they have been subsequent to liberation, and it is a fact that speaks volumes for the much discussed and criticized slaveholders, that numbers of emancipated slaves refused to accept their freedom, while many more, who went away delighted at the removal of withstraint, came back of their own option very soon after, and begged to be allowed to resume the old relations.

词源

From withstrain, modelled after restraint. Equivalent to with- + straint.
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