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Debar  v. t.  (past & past part. debarred; pres. part. debarring)  To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; with from, and sometimes with of. "Yet not so strictly hath our Lord imposed Labor, as to debar us when we need Refreshment." "Their wages were so low as to debar them, not only from the comforts but from the common decencies of civilized life."






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"Debar" Quotes from Famous Books



... world where there is so little that is genuine, why should I debar myself from the pleasure ...
— The Parts Men Play • Arthur Beverley Baxter

... hours out of school were spent in ways most pleasing to his lively imagination. His lameness did not debar him from the most active sports, nor even from the vigorous encounters in which, either with a single opponent or with company set against company, the Scotch schoolboys defended their reputation as ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 • Charles H. Sylvester

... holiness and King Philip, who do undertake to further us in our affairs, as we shall need." It is utterly incredible that any man in Desmond's position could have written such a letter—could have placed in the hands of his enemies a document which must for ever debar him from entering into terms with Elizabeth or her representatives in Ireland. We have no hesitation, therefore, in classing this pretended letter to Pelham with those admitted forgeries which drove the unfortunate Lord Thomas Fitzgerald into premature ...
— A Popular History of Ireland - From the earliest period to the emancipation of the Catholics • Thomas D'Arcy McGee

... old deeds chivalrous once again Would find fulfilment; and the curse of Cain Which fell on woman, as on men it fell, Would fly from us, as at a sorcerer's spell, And leave us wiser than the sophists are Who love not folly. Night should not debar, Nor day dissuade us, from those ecstacies That have ...
— A Lover's Litanies • Eric Mackay

... no more than a dream to her, of whose whereabouts and condition—nay, of his very existence—she was unaware. And she had told him that no promise, no word of love, had passed between them. "Yes, you may think of him," he had said, meaning not to debar her from the use of thought, which should be open to all the world, "but let him not be spoken of." Then she had promised; and when she had come again to withdraw her promise, she had done so with some cock-and-bull story about ...
— An Old Man's Love • Anthony Trollope


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