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present participle and gerund of restrain examples
plural restrainings
The act by which someone or something is restrained. quotations examples
She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said; […]
1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage