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ˈthwarted, ppl. a.
[f. thwart v. + -ed1.]
†1. Placed across; crossed. Obs. rare—1.
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. iii. §11 All Knights-Templers make such saltire cross with their thwarted leggs upon their monuments.
2. Obstructed; frustrated, balked, defeated.
1828Carlyle Misc., Burns (1872) II. 13 Ever-thwarted, ever renewed endeavours. 1837Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xlv. (1870) II. 504 A thwarted, and therefore a painful energy of thought. 1879Dixon Windsor II. xx. 208 Harry..understood the misery of a thwarted suit.
Hence ˈthwartedly adv.
1870Ruskin Lect. Art vii. (1875) 179 An atmosphere through which a burning sun shines thwartedly. |