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fetterings

fetterings is the plural of fettering.

Meaning of fettering

Noun

fettering (plural fetterings)

  1. The act by which something is fettered or constricted.
    • 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.1927, Bertrand Russell, “What We Must Do”, in Why I Am Not a Christian

Questions about fetterings

What is fetterings the plural of?
Fetterings is the plural of fettering.

Words near fetterings in the dictionary

  1. fetterer
  2. fetterers
  3. Fetterhoff
  4. Fetterhoffs
  5. fettering
  6. fetterings
  7. fetterless
  8. fetterlessness
  9. fetterlock
  10. fetterlocks
  11. Fetterly

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