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Thwart v. t. (past & past part. thwarted; pres. part. thwarting)

To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air. (Obs.) "Swift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the night."

To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat. "If crooked fortune had not thwarted me." "The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other."

Thwart v. i.

To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner. (R.)

Hence, to be in opposition; to clash. (R.) "Any proposition... that shall at all thwart with internal oracles."

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Etymology of 'Thwarting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thwarting" Quotes from Famous Books

... rejected aspirants were sure to attribute their decision to their devotion to the "Liberator." Thus it happened that most objectionable candidates could not be resisted without incurring the imputation of opposing and thwarting the "saviour of ...

— The Felon's Track • Michael Doheny

... highly probable. A mutiny on board the chief ship of the flotilla was assigned by Cesari-Colonna as the cause of his order for a retreat; but there are mutinies and mutinies, and this one may have been a trick of the Paolists for thwarting Buonaparte's plan and leaving him a prisoner. In any case, the young officer only saved himself and his men by a hasty retreat to the boats, tumbling into the sea a mortar and four cannon. Such was the ending to the great ...

— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose

... and Schenk is my special enemy," replied Max in the steady resolute tone Dale knew so well. "There is no one who can take my place there in thwarting the enemy's plans, and while I live ...

— Two Daring Young Patriots - or, Outwitting the Huns • W. P. Shervill

... life, and that my defects and uglinesses and failures, just as much as my powers and successes, are things that are necessary and important and contributory in that scheme, that scheme which passes my understanding—and that no thwarting of my conception, not even the cruelty of nature, now defeats or can defeat my faith, however much it perplexes ...

— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells

... prepare myself for the worst. I arrived. My reception was such as I had calculated upon; and, to increase my distress, my parents had been at variance. I will not pain you and myself with any recital of their disagreement. My mother had espoused my cause, chiefly, I fear, with the view of thwarting my poor father's inclinations. He was in a terrible mood, exasperated by the fiery stimulants he had swallowed, which had not indeed, drowned his reason, but roused and inflamed every dormant emotion to violence. He was as one insane. ...

— Rookwood • William Harrison Ainsworth

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