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/ɪndʒˈəŋkʃən/ /ɪndʒˈəŋʃən/ Listen

noun

Injunction n.

The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or prohibiting.

That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a command; a precept; a direction. "For still they knew, and ought to have still remembered, The high injunction, not to taste that fruit." "Necessary as the injunctions of lawful authority."

(Law) A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, in some cases, under statutes, by a court of law, whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ. Note: It is more generally used as a preventive than as a restorative process, although by no means confined to the former.

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"Injunction" Quotes from Famous Books

... deaf ear to their hints. A happy chance intervened to bring them out of the wild, mysterious realm of the Great Khan. Arghun, Khan of Persia, a great-nephew of Kublai, had lost by death his favorite wife, who was of one of the Mongol tribes, and who, dying in 1286, laid a parting injunction on the Khan that he should wed none but a Mongol princess. Sorely mourning her, the Persian Khan sent an embassy to the court of Kublai Khan to solicit a suitable bride for him. The Lady Kuchachin, ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 • Various

... you are!" he says presently; "you, who used to be so self-reliant, have now lost all your courage. Try to be brave, Molly, for both our sakes. And—as I must soon go—tell me, what is your parting injunction to me?" ...

— Molly Bawn • Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

... given on five festivals, which days naturally provided suitable subjects, and afterwards it was decided to increase the number to twelve days, and they pass the following resolution: "Every day must handle a new matter, that's the injunction; and because the days afford not any special occasion, the particular names imposed on us shall be the subjects successively of our several exercises." The titles were (1) "The Chief" (who chose for her subject "Humility"); (2) The Patient; (3) The Affectionate; ...

— Little Gidding and its inmates in the Time of King Charles I. - with an account of the Harmonies • J. E. Acland

... Hamlin was superstitious. He rose hastily from the bed, and took a chair beside the window. The wind shook it as if the discontented spirit of Mr. Byways were without, re-enforcing his last injunction. ...

— The Twins of Table Mountain and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... tendency of Christ's teachings women soon became active factors in their promulgation. If there were no other evidence to show that they publicly taught the new doctrines, the injunction of St. Paul, "I suffer not a woman to teach," would seem to imply ...

— The God-Idea of the Ancients - or Sex in Religion • Eliza Burt Gamble

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