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Translation of "Confines" in French

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Examples of using "Confines" in a sentence and their french translations:

Sex outside the confines of long-term, romantic relationships.

en dehors des limites d'une relation longue et romantique ?

The judge confines himself to directing the procedure to avoid irregularities and ensure respect for the rights of the parties,

le juge se borne à diriger la procédure pour éviter les irrégularités et assurer le respect des droits des parties,

Even a sophist who deceives without deceiving himself is not yet an impostor, as long as he confines himself to the authority of reason, even though he abuses it.

Un sophiste même qui trompe sans se tromper n'est pas un imposteur encore, tant qu'il se borne à l'autorité de la raison, quoiqu'il en abuse.

- Those indignant winds grumble with a loud murmuring around the confines of the mountain; Aeolus sits in his high citadel, holding his scepter, and he soothes their spirits and tempers their rages: if he did not do this, they would surely snatch away seas and lands and the deep heaven itself, and sweep them off through the windy sky.
- They, in the rock reverberant held fast, / moan at the doors. Here, throned aloft, he reigns; / his sceptre calms their rage, their violence restrains: / else earth and sea and all the firmament / the winds together through the void would sweep.

S'agitant de fureur dans leurs prisons tremblantes, / ils luttent en grondant, ils s'indignent du frein. / Au haut de son rocher, assis le sceptre en main, / Éole leur commande ; il maîtrise, il tempère / du peuple impétueux l'indocile colère : / s'ils n'étaient retenus, soudain cieux, terre, mers, / devant eux rouleraient emportés dans les airs.