From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A person or thing that thwart s.
2. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1802 |author=(Author unknown) |title=Edinburgh Magazine: or Literary
Miscellany |chapter=Character of Suvarrof
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wwWvFXTVYz0C&printsec=index&dq=thwarter&lr=&as_brr=3&source=gbs_toc_s&cad=1#PPA119,M1
|page=119 |passage=If Paul, in diſmiſſing, had conſidered only his natural
cruelty, or his folly, real or affected, perhaps the meaſure would have been
applauded but he appeared to aim at puniſing the man devoted to his mother,
and the THWARTER of his military innovations, which were too abrupt and too
ill-directed }}
1. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1852 |author=William Hepworth Dixon |title=John Howard, and the
Prison-world of Europe
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=FNItAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA347&dq=thwarter&lr=&as_brr=3
|isbn= |page=347 |passage=By his strong remonstrances he saved many a poor
fellow from the rebel's crime and doom <!--non-breaking space used before
punctuation-->; but not without imminent peril to himself. Governments did
not like the THWARTER of their purposes. }}
1. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1927 |author=Edward Alsworth Ross |title=Standing Room Only? |isbn=
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=IDgw31IFjS4C&pg=PA6&dq=thwarter&lr=&as_brr=3&sig=xVvuwtbjfdn1JEjvWuezSKejlmA
|page=6 |passage=As an orthodox clergyman Malthus was therefore hard put to it
to account for our being launched into existence with a sex thirst that is a
snare and a THWARTER of human happiness. }}
1. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1988 |author=Jeffrey Burton Russell |title=The Prince of Darkness:
Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=xKHBaCS5wUMC&pg=PA44&dq=thwarter&lr=&as_brr=3&sig=O7ApBkyPMLP96YJbLkQXvy2tARA
|isbn=0801480566 |page=44 |passage=In this Satan continues his Old Testament
role of THWARTER and obstructor, as he does later against Paul (1 Thess.
2.18) }}
1. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=2006 |author=Ximena Gallardo-C.; C. Jason Smith |title=Alien Woman:
The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=k_H3vLIRECgC&pg=PA151&dq=thwarter+date:2000-2008&lr=&as_brr=3&sig=KjZDtC8bp_WO75Im-Vn67URouOY
|isbn=0826419100 |page=151 |passage=Similarly, Ripley, as the THWARTER of the
wishes of the godlike Company, proclaims herself as _the_<!--italicised in
original--> adversary of this narrative. }}
1. [en] A disease in sheep , characterised by trembling, or convulsion.
*** References
- [R:Webster 1913]
[en]