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Limiting   /lˈɪmətɪŋ/   Listen
Limiting

adjective
1.
Restricting the scope or freedom of action.  Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, restricting.
2.
Strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase.
noun
1.
The grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase.  Synonyms: modification, qualifying.


Limit

verb
(past & past part. limited; pres. part. limiting)
1.
Place limits on (extent or access).  Synonyms: bound, confine, restrain, restrict, throttle, trammel.  "Limit the time you can spend with your friends"
2.
Restrict or confine,.  Synonyms: circumscribe, confine.
3.
Decide upon or fix definitely.  Synonyms: define, determine, fix, set, specify.  "Specify the parameters"



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"Limiting" Quotes from Famous Books



... may be objected to on this ground, and both be set aside as limiting the perfections of God. Indeed, it has been objected against the scheme of Leibnitz, "that it seems to make something which I do not know how to express otherwise than by the ancient stoical fate, antecedent and superior even to God himself. I would therefore think it best to say, with ...
— A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory • Albert Taylor Bledsoe
... of the advancement of natural knowledge. The burden of Bacon's pleadings for science is the gathering of fruit'—the importance of winning solid material advantages by the investigation of Nature and the desirableness of limiting the application of scientific methods of inquiry ...
— The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century • T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley
... the chairman, at the close, "let's fill in the rest, and finish this thing now. Spinney's name will be presented by Watson, of his county, and seconded by three other counties. I'm limiting the seconding speeches to three. And you know the men Everett has picked out! Of course, I've left the—the big matter in your own hands, Thelismer." Presson glanced over his glasses at General Waymouth with a significant smile. "Have you decided? Are you going to let both the other ...
— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day
... speech that he failed to properly instruct the jury; second, because the colonel's story about his brother-in-law's wife was tedious; third, because Nekhludoff was so excited that he did not notice the omission of the clause limiting the intent in the answer, and thought that the words "without intent to rob" negatively answered the question; fourth, because Peter Gerasimovich was not in the room when the foreman read the questions ...
— The Awakening - The Resurrection • Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy
... birth of Virginia Democracy, the people had not witnessed so generous an outpouring of delegates. In a State where every man is more or less a politician, the convention had assumed the air of a carnival of males—the restriction of sex limiting it to an expression of but half ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow


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