restrainer
Example Sentences
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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
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
Those who restrain desire to do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer, or reason, usurps its place and governs the unwilling.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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 Lawlor, Hugh Jackson
