injunction
6
7.7
- noun
- /ɪnˈdʒʌŋkʃən/
- Formal
:
mandamiento
- The Golden Rule, for example, and the injunction to love one's neighbor as one's self are rules.
- biblical injunction
- divine injunction
- scriptural injunction
It's it's pretty similar to the, you know, Christian injunction to turn the other cheek and not to get angry.
- It's it's pretty similar to the, you know, Christian injunction to turn the other cheek and not to get angry.
- So the the injunction here, the imperative is to prioritize reconciliation.
- And I I draw it from this beautiful biblical injunction to develop eyes to see and ears to hear.
- And that's another, that's another example of the pragmatic utility of those injunctions.
- We're going to worry more about these rules or these these injunctions or imperatives for how it is that we ought to to live.
Examples
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The political establishment of a society can rest on the moral injunctions of religion.
Academic text (2005) -
When, I wonder, did the parental injunction become "Be safe" or "Take care" rather than "Be good"?
Academic text (2002) -
You know, I got well known, I suppose, in part because of my injunction to people that they clean up their room.
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Could it be that Rilke's injunction, "You must change your life," was aimed at me?
Fiction book (2000) -
Did compliance with the injunction violate the civil rights of Christians?
Academic text (2008) -
If the system that justifies the injunctions is questioned, then the culture as a whole may be threatened.
Academic text (1992) -
Even more surprising in this brief section are the striking biblical images and injunctions.
Academic text (1995) -
Like other revivalists, Finney elaborated on the biblical injunction, "Make you a new heart."
Academic text (2006) -
The judicial power to enforce injunctions by holding a violator in contempt is potent and forceful.
Academic text (2004) -
The court issued an injunction to prevent the company from polluting the river.
Synonyms
∞
3.0
An instruction from someone in power that must be followed
293
1.2
An official rule that stops people from doing something
128
6.1
An official instruction from a government or organization
108
3.5
An official instruction from a court telling someone to do or stop doing something
80
5.7
An official written order from a court or government that must be followed
34
8.5
An official order that a government or person in power gives
27
7.2
An official order from a person or government in power that people must follow
19
7.2
A court rule that stops people from talking about a case to the public
12
8.9
An official order by a court or authority that stops someone from doing something
3
9.1
A court order that stops changes and protects things until the case ends
3
8.8
An official rule that bans something or someone, usually by law
2
8.3
A court order that stops a person or company from doing something forever
1
9.9
A court order that tells a government official to do a legal duty after other options fail
1
8.2
A document from a court that orders someone to do or stop something
1
8.1
An official order that stops a person or group from doing certain things
1
8.4
An official order from an emperor or ruler that people must follow
A court order that makes someone do a specific action
A court order at the end of a trial that permanently tells someone to stop or do something
A court order made during a trial to keep things the same until the court makes a final decision
An order from a higher court that stops a lower court from hearing a case outside its power
Compounds
- Formal
3
9.1
A court order that stops changes and protects things until the case ends
- Formal
2
8.3
A court order that stops a person or company from doing something forever
- Formal
A court order at the end of a trial that permanently tells someone to stop or do something
A court order made during a trial to keep things the same until the court makes a final decision
How Binding
- Formal
6
7.7
- Formal
169
4.9
∞
3.0
- Formal
128
6.1
455
1.2
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Injunction comes from the Latin verb injungere, with in- 'in' and jungere 'to join', the same root as the common word join. That old idea of 'joining' became the idea of 'binding' a person to do or not do something, so an injunction is an authoritative order you must follow.