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Antonyms for fetter

Grammar : Verb
Spell : fet-er
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɛt ər


Definition of fetter

Origin :
  • Old English fetor "chain or shackle for the feet," from Proto-Germanic *fetero (cf. Old Saxon feteros (plural), Middle Dutch veter "fetter," in modern Dutch "lace, string," Old High German fezzera, Old Norse fiöturr, Swedish fjätter), from PIE root *ped- "foot" (see foot (n.)). The generalized sense of "anything that shackles" had evolved in Old English. Related Fetters.
  • verb tie up, hold
Example sentences :
  • Briefly, I sketched the Chief's report, Fetter nodding every few words.
  • Extract from : « Priestess of the Flame » by Sewell Peaslee Wright
  • Marriage is no fetter about a man or woman, binding both to that which they may get to hate.
  • Extract from : « The Soul of a People » by H. Fielding
  • Each engagement, even a temporary one, was felt as a fetter by Erasmus.
  • Extract from : « Erasmus and the Age of Reformation » by Johan Huizinga
  • It is a bauble meant to gratify her: why make it a fetter, be it ever so light a one?
  • Extract from : « Molly Bawn » by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
  • The groan of breaking hearts is there—The falling lash—the fetter's clank!
  • Extract from : « The Liberty Minstrel » by George W. Clark
  • Froude and I were nobodies; with no characters to lose, and no antecedents to fetter us.
  • Extract from : « Apologia Pro Vita Sua » by John Henry Cardinal Newman
  • It consisted of seventy-two members of the Fetter Lane Society.
  • Extract from : « History of the Moravian Church » by J. E. Hutton
  • No longer was the Fetter Lane Society a calm abode of peace.
  • Extract from : « History of the Moravian Church » by J. E. Hutton
  • To yield to it, is to fetter our life with self-imposed and fantastic chains.
  • Extract from : « Joyous Gard » by Arthur Christopher Benson
  • The entente cordiale is simply a fetter and a dead weight upon you.
  • Extract from : « Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo » by E. Phillips Oppenheim

Synonyms for fetter

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