thwarting

English

Verb

thwarting

1. present participle and gerund of thwart

Noun

thwarting (plural thwartings)

1. An instance of blocking or obstructing.
   • 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XV, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II, page 266:

     […] 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.