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injunction

noun
/ɪnˈd͡ʒʌŋk.ʃən/

Etymology

From Middle English iniunccyon, iniunccion, from Old French injonctïon, from Latin iniūnctiō (“command, injunction”).

  1. derived from iniūnctiō — “command, injunction”
  2. derived from injonctïon
  3. inherited from iniunccyon

Definitions

  1. The act of enjoining

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

  2. That which is enjoined

    That which is enjoined; such as an order, mandate, decree, command, precept.

    • Its verbs are conjugated in a way that defies all the injunctions of the grammar books; it has its contumacious rules of tense, number and case; […]

  3. A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, in some cases, under statutes, by a…

    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.

    • Southwark council, which took out the injunction against Matt, believes YouTube has become the "new playground" for gang members.
    • The judges said Trump must issue new orders reflecting the permanent injunction within 10 days.

The neighborhood

Derived

hyper-injunction, injunctional, injunctionless

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at injunction. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at injunction. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at injunction

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA