What is "restrains"

Usage examples of "restrains".

But who doubts that the modern prohibition of the marriage even of cousins is the more seemly regulation-not merely on account of the reason we have been urging, the multiplying of relationships, so that one person might not absorb two, which might be distributed to two persons, and so increase the number of people bound together as a family, but also because there is in human nature I know not what natural and praiseworthy shamefacedness which restrains us from desiring that connection which, though for propagation, is yet lustful and which even conjugal modesty blushes over, with any one to whom consanguinity bids us render respect?

Some say that even the wise man is subject to these perturbations, though moderated and controlled by reason, which imposes laws upon them, and so restrains them within necessary bounds.

Gentleness withholds and restrains the stirrings and the urgings of man's impetuosity in his heart in such manner that it leaps not out in anger or in ire.

Measure, also, which restrains within reason the unrestrained appetite for eating.

And ever the greater merit shall he have who restrains the wicked enkindlings of the ordure of this sin.

And in this matter, while it restrains concupiscence within due bounds, the man who neglects and disobeys it is justly branded as abominable.

It is for this reason that the virtues which it seems to itself to possess, and by which it restrains the body and the vices that it may obtain and keep what it desires, are rather vices than virtues so long as there is no reference to God in the matter.

Salman restrains Bilal: "We should be honoured that the mighty Baal has chosen to attack us," he smiles, and Bilal relaxes, subsides.

He gets them to let him inside, he drugs them, restrains them, and he kills them.