Definition of Fettered

Fettered

Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.

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Fettered Quotations

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
Charles de Lint

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
Angelina Grimke

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Fettered Translations

fettered in German is fesselte, gefesselt

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