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verb

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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"Thwarting" Quotes from Famous Books

... was unknown to her must be connected in some way with the sorrow that darkened his life, and the spectre of the past she tried to forget seemed to rise and grin at her triumphantly. She shivered. Would its power last until life ended? Would it stand between them always, rivalling her, thwarting her every effort? ...

— The Shadow of the East • E. M. Hull

... that it cannot be approached until the question of Ireland's freedom has by some means been settled, for this ideal of freedom has captured the imagination of the race. It rides Ireland like a nightmare, thwarting or preventing all civilising or cultural work in this country, and it is not too much to say that Ireland cannot even begin to live until that obsession and fever has come to an end, and her imagination has been set free to do the work ...

— The Insurrection in Dublin • James Stephens

... riches. He had heard enough to know that there was treasure buried in or around Bartanet, and he also knew that the boys whom he held in hatred were in search of it. What joy to steal the riches from them and thus gain the twofold advantage of thwarting them and at the same time putting himself in a position to indulge those vices ...

— The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove - Or, The Missing Chest of Gold • Spencer Davenport

... grated, and Hatchie distinctly heard the malediction he bestowed upon him. Fears for his personal safety did not, for a moment, disturb him. Prudence alone prevented him from rushing upon the villains, and thwarting in its embryo stage ...

— Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue • Warren T. Ashton

... "No, never," replied Northcote. "Why not?" "Because he has an income of six thousand pounds a year." In the sunshine of wealth a man is, as a rule, warped too much to become an artist of high merit. He should have some great thwarting difficulty to struggle against. A drenching shower of adversity would ...

— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

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