controul

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“[…] whole Herds or Flocks of other Women ſecurely, and ſcarce regarded, traverſe the Park⟳, the Play⟳, the Opera, and the Aſſembly; and though, for the moſt Part at leaſt, they are at laſt devoured, yet for a long Time do they wanton in Liberty, without Diſturbance or Controul.”

“As the Knight himself seemed tacitly to disclaim alike interest⟳ and controul over the immediate favourite of his lady, young Roland was, by circumstances, exempted from the strict discipline to which, as the retainer of a Scottish man of rank, he would otherwise have⟳ been subjected, according to all the rigour of the age.”

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