Thwarter

/ˈθwɔː(ɹ).tə(ɹ)/ · noun

Meaning

A person or thing that thwarts..

Definitions by Sense

1. A person or thing that thwarts.
2. (obsolete) A disease in sheep, characterised by trembling, or convulsion.

Example Sentences

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

By his strong remonstrances he saved many a poor fellow from the rebel's crime and doom ; but not without imminent peril to himself. Governments did not like the thwarter of their purposes.

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.

In this Satan continues his Old Testament role of thwarter and obstructor, as he does later against Paul (1 Thess. 2.18)

Similarly, Ripley, as the thwarter of the wishes of the godlike Company, proclaims herself as the adversary of this narrative.

Hicks is both thwarter and thwartee of Daedalean plots. Aboard a train, the rhythm of the wheels sounds to him like "wottachump, wottachump, wottachump."

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