thwarting
English
Verb
thwarting
Noun
thwarting (plural thwartings)
- An instance of blocking or obstructing.
- George Eliot
- […] 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.
- George Eliot