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Antonyms for fetters

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

Definition of fetters

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.
  • noun bindings; bondage
Example sentences :
  • In you I was sure of a mind strong enough to break the fetters of habit.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • When did you feel the fetters fust busting from your spirit?
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • For the fetters which bind us can not be shaken off, before the conscience is emancipated.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • What would the world do with Joan Sullivan if she ever broke her fetters and went to it?
  • Extract from : « The Flockmaster of Poison Creek » by George W. Ogden
  • He struggled and struggled and strove to break his fetters, but without avail.
  • Extract from : « Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer » by Cyrus Townsend Brady
  • It was, as he expressed it, by the heat of their own passions that he welded the fetters for their own limbs.
  • Extract from : « Gerald Fitzgerald » by Charles James Lever
  • Every day added a link to the fetters of that strange freedom.
  • Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad
  • Her emotions were struggling from the fetters with which she tried to bind them.
  • Extract from : « Joan of Arc of the North Woods » by Holman Day
  • The fetters gall her, but she has not courage to shake them off.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 » by Various
  • Atahualpa was led forth in fetters and chained to the stake.
  • Extract from : « South American Fights and Fighters » by Cyrus Townsend Brady

Synonyms for fetters

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