estop
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By voting for our opponents, such of us as do it in some measure estop ourselves to complain of their acts, however glaringly wrong we may believe them to be.
From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 by Abraham Lincoln
Such was alien to his kindly nature; and if it had not been, there were other causes to estop him from any such indulgence.
From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by William Henry Sparks
"I know Theriff Briggth, he rid over the boundary with a lot o' men and horthes," said Johnny, with that hurried delivery with which he was able to estop interruption.
From Cressy by Bret Harte
I replied, "O my lord, can a slipper estop the flowing of a water that feedeth a Hammam?"
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
He perceived that the object was to estop, by his admissions, any objections to the course pursued in permitting the Taranteens to leave, which he might afterwards be disposed to make.
From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by John Turvill Adams
No matter how glibly presented, however, an “evolved” legal position may be estopped.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2019
Receipt of the Message in confidence automatically estopped all news speculation as to its contents.
From Time Magazine Archive
The seven estopped companies are: Commonwealth Telephone Co., a subsidiary of Associated Telephone Utilities Co., serving in Wisconsin communities against 102 served by A. T. & T.'s unit.
From Time Magazine Archive
“And he’d be all, ‘Well, we were playeeng un concierto een the palacio weeth Esteban and Julio, and then we estopped when thee pretty lady came een.’”
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
If the President had pardoned a great majority of the Secessionists, that fact perhaps might have legally estopped Congress from passing the Reconstruction Acts.
From The Reconstruction of Georgia Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. 13, No. 3, 1901 by Edwin C. Woolley
Every stilted phrase, every estopping, restraining word of its redundancy, was like a bar between him and his hopes.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
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