Thwarting
[θwɔrtɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thwart
Typed by Blanche
Examples
- The woman of Pablo could feel her rage changing to sorrow and to a feeling of the thwarting of all hope and promise. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Our choice, it seems to me, lies between a blind push and a deliberate leadership, between thwarting movements until they master us, and domesticating them until they are answered. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Half the town would almost take trouble for the sake of thwarting him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Editor: Sheldon