INJUNCTION

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity

Example:

injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order

Synonyms:

cease and desist order; enjoining; enjoinment; injunction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("injunction" is a kind of...):

ban; prohibition; proscription (a decree that prohibits something)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "injunction"):

mandatory injunction (injunction requiring the performance of some specific act)

final injunction; permanent injunction (injunction issued on completion of a trial)

interlocutory injunction; temporary injunction (injunction issued during a trial to maintain the status quo or preserve the subject matter of the litigation until the trial is over)

Derivation:

enjoin (issue an injunction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A formal command or admonition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("injunction" is a kind of...):

bid; bidding; command; dictation (an authoritative direction or instruction to do something)

Derivation:

enjoin (give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority)

Credits

Context examples:

The party before her were, Mrs Musgrove, talking to Mrs Croft, and Captain Harville to Captain Wentworth; and she immediately heard that Mary and Henrietta, too impatient to wait, had gone out the moment it had cleared, but would be back again soon, and that the strictest injunctions had been left with Mrs Musgrove to keep her there till they returned.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Would Sir Thomas have consented to eat, she might have gone to the housekeeper with troublesome directions, and insulted the footmen with injunctions of despatch; but Sir Thomas resolutely declined all dinner: he would take nothing, nothing till tea came—he would rather wait for tea.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them increased that regret which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father’s dying injunction had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In the morning I obeyed Holmes’s injunctions to the letter.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But, I believe the time has come when it would be mistaken faith and delicacy to conceal it any longer, and when your appeal absolves me from his injunction.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That was all; and on the land I would have been lying on the broad of my back, with a surgeon attending on me, and with strict injunctions to do nothing but rest.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Think of me to-morrow, my dear Emma, about four o'clock,” was Mrs. Weston's parting injunction; spoken with some anxiety, and meant only for her.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Elinor would not attempt to disturb a solitude so reasonable as what she now sought; and with a mind anxiously pre-arranging its result, and a resolution of reviving the subject again, should Marianne fail to do it, she turned into the parlour to fulfill her parting injunction.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

In March of that year Dr. Moore Agar, of Harley Street, whose dramatic introduction to Holmes I may some day recount, gave positive injunctions that the famous private agent lay aside all his cases and surrender himself to complete rest if he wished to avert an absolute breakdown.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Bennet was diffuse in her good wishes for the felicity of her daughter, and impressive in her injunctions that she should not miss the opportunity of enjoying herself as much as possible—advice which there was every reason to believe would be well attended to; and in the clamorous happiness of Lydia herself in bidding farewell, the more gentle adieus of her sisters were uttered without being heard.