fettering

English

Verb

fettering

  1. present participle and gerund of fetter

Noun

fettering (plural fetterings)

  1. The act by which something is fettered or constricted.
    • 1927, Bertrand Russell, “What We Must Do”, in Why I Am Not a Christian‎[1]:
      A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past, or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.
    • 2003, Marva J. Dawn, Unfettered Hope, page xii:
      Through this book's exploration of various kinds of fetterings and of one method for thinking beyond them, I want to demonstrate the unique and unfettered hope of the Christian faith.

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