debarring

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Balder had felt her touch, first as a benediction; then it chilled him, through remembrance of a deed forever debarring him from aught so pure and innocent as she.

From Idolatry A Romance by Hawthorne, Julian

For we like to keep our coin up to our own standard, debarring no man from making better for himself.

From The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to their original melodies; with an English version by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

Exclu′sive, able or tending to exclude: debarring from participation: sole: not taking into account.—n. one of a number who exclude others from their society.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Montesquieu has made it clear that the debarring of the nobility from mercantile pursuits was an admirable social policy, in that it prevented wealth from accumulating in the hands of the powerful.

From Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Nitobe, Inazo

When, after defection, gracious reforming kings arose, and had to do against foreign invasion, we find them not debarring any subjects, but calling them out promiscuously.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh