Synonyms:
restriction, limitation
Meaning: a principle that limits the extent of something; "I am willing to accept certain restrictions on my movements"
Synonyms:
limitation, restriction
Meaning: an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation)
Usage examples
THE RESTRICTION OF DIVORCE
This was impregnable, and admitted of neither objection nor restriction.
Third, there is the question of venereal disease, which society has an unquestionable right to keep down, by every reasonable restriction upon sexual promiscuity.
Considering the fact that Jefferson had originated the policy of slavery restriction in his draft of the ordinance of 1784, the name became singularly appropriate, and wherever the Free-soilers succeeded in forming a coalition it was adopted without question.
Is the Christian life, after all, what its enemies take it for--an additional weight to the already great woe of life, some extra punctiliousness about duty, some painful devotion to observances, some heavy restriction and trammeling of all that is joyous and free in the world?