injunction
/ɪnˈd͡ʒʌŋk.ʃən/ noun C1- The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or prohibiting.
- That which is enjoined; such as an order, mandate, decree, command, precept.
- 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.
Plural injunctions
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I was certainly feeling very weary, so I obeyed his injunction.
Tell her that I have thus, to a certain degree, disobeyed her injunctions, in the hope that she may yet be inclined to see justice done.
She carried out every one of my injunctions to the letter, and certainly without her co-operation you would not have that paper in your coat-pocket.
In the morning I obeyed Holmes’s injunctions to the letter.
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