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thwartings

thwartings is the plural of thwarting.

Meaning of thwarting

Noun

thwarting (plural thwartings)

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

Questions about thwartings

What is thwartings the plural of?
Thwartings is the plural of thwarting.

Words near thwartings in the dictionary

  1. thwartest
  2. thwarteth
  3. thwartful
  4. thwarting
  5. thwartingly
  6. thwartings
  7. thwartly
  8. thwartness
  9. thwarts
  10. thwartship
  11. thwartships

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