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▪ I. thwarting, vbl. n.|ˈθwɔːtɪŋ|
[f. thwart v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb thwart.
†1. Going athwart, crossing. Obs. rare—1.
c1440Gesta Rom. xlvi. 193 (Harl. MS.) By the Ringe we muste vndirstonde feithe, for that owithe to be Rounde like a Ringe, and with oute eny twartynge.
b. Cross-ploughing.
1847Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VIII. ii. 318 After the first thwarting of the fallow (cross-ploughing),..the clods are worked..into about the size of a hen's egg.
2. Opposition; hindrance, impediment; defeating, frustration.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iv. lii. (1869) 200 Þe arguynge, ne þe thuartinge is no thing worth ayens us, ne ayens deth neither. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxviii. (1887) 109 A number of lettes and thwartings which art did prescribe. 1609Douland Ornith. Microl. 79 A Discord..is the hard and rough thwarting of two sounds not mingled with themselues. 1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 53 Great thwartings and misfortunes by the means of women. 1825Scott Jrnl. 23 Dec., Those thwartings are what men in public life do not like to endure.
▪ II. thwarting, ppl. a.|ˈθwɔːtɪŋ|
[f. thwart v. + -ing2.]
That thwarts, in various senses.
1. Lying or passing crosswise; crossing, traversing, transverse; of the eyes: crossed, squinting. Obs. or arch.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iv. iv. (1869) 176 With purblynde eyen and thwartinge may not be hool lookinge. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis i. i. 3, I fled thorow the bushes, where the thwarting bowes loosened the knots of my hayre. 1632Lithgow Trav. (1906) 278 Slaine and hung up on two standing and a thwarting tree. 1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 48 If it [middle line of the palm] be right, continued, and without thwarting lines.
2. Conflicting, opposing, obstructing; perverse; frustrating, baffling; adverse, untoward.
1530Palsgr. 306/2 Brablyng thwartyng or quarellyng, noyseux. Ibid. 327/2 Twhartynge or contraryeng, captieux. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iv. vi. 22 That the people of this blessed Land May not be punisht with my thwarting starres. 1658Whole Duty of Man iv. §3 To entangle themselves by taking one oath cross and thwarting to another. 1718Free-thinker No. 61 ⁋9 A Thwarting, Cavilling Temper only promotes Contention. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath (1839) 23/1 The thwarting surge Dash'd, boiling, on the labouring bark. 1878J. R. Seeley Stein II. 4 The very moment when the thwarting power..visibly intervenes.
Hence ˈthwartingly adv., transversely; perversely; adversely.
1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 359/1 Fetch no winde⁓lesses, nor goe anye by-wayes and as it were thwartingly. 1618T. Adams Chr. Walk Wks. 1862 II. 407 The over-precise are so thwartingly cross to the superstitious..that they will scarce do a good work, because a heretic doth it. 1715tr. Pancirollus' Rerum Mem. II. xiii. 359 These Films..laid one upon another, some in a direct, and others thwartingly and in a transverse Position. |