All 4 Uses of
prevent
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- Their exertions had the effect of suspending his purpose; but it was feared that he would perform, after death, by the operation of his last will, what he had so hardly been prevented from doing in his proper lifetime.†
Chpt 1prevented = stopped (something from happening)
- Though prevented, by a subtile sense of propriety, from desiring to associate with them, he loved few things better than to look out of the arched window and see a little girl driving her hoop along the sidewalk, or schoolboys at a game of ball.†
Chpt 11
- Had I your opportunities, no scruples would prevent me from fathoming Clifford to the full depth of my plummet-line!†
Chpt 12 *prevent = stop (something from happening)
- One of them, in truth,—it was he with the blood-stain on his band,—seemed, unless his gestures were misunderstood, to hold the parchment in his immediate keeping, but was prevented by his two partners in the mystery from disburdening himself of the trust.†
Chpt 13prevented = stopped (something from happening)
Definition:
to stop (something from happening)