- present participle of debar.
debarring
Example Sentences
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This was ingeniously framed with an appearance of justice, as if debarring from office only those who to rebellion had added perjury.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam
May 30.—Prynne continued, in subsequent pamphlets, to attack the Rumpers for the wrong done to him and the other secluded members in still debarring them from their seats.
From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by David Masson
"It simply excruciates me from you," he had said, thus debarring her from that only appellation which would certainly be the easiest, and which seemed to her the only one becoming.
From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
No longer the lean ascetic, debarring his soul of her rightful pleasures; but embracing all the joys of life, and combining pleasure with knowledge.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
His parents were Roman Catholics, and to this faith the poet adhered, thus debarring himself from public office and employment.
From An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope
