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thwarting en · NOUN
Meanings
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An instance of blocking or obstructing.
[…] the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.
1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XV, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II, page 266:
Forms
thwarting en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of thwart