LekhoriLekhoriTo hold back, to restrain (someone or something).
Refrain thy foot from their path.
To show restraint; to hold oneself back.
And nowe I saye unto you: refrayne youreselves from these men, and let them alone [...].
To repress (a desire, emotion etc.); to check or curb.
The chorus or burden of a song repeated at the end of each verse or stanza.
For perhaps as much as thirty seconds they kept it up. It was a refrain that was often heard in moments of overwhelming emotion. Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.
A much repeated comment, complaint, or saying.
From Middle English refreynen, from Anglo-Norman refrener, Old French refrener (from Latin refrenare), and influenced by Old French refraindre (from Latin refringere).
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