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limiting
adjective
noun
restricting the scope or freedom of action
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adjective
restricting the scope or freedom of action
adjective
strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase
“the restrictive clause in ‘Each made a list of the books that had influenced him’ limits the books on the list to only those particular ones defined by the clause”
noun
the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase
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the restrictive clause in ‘Each made a list of the books that had influenced him’ limits the books on the list to only those particular ones defined by the clause
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