Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which hinders.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, hinders.
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- noun One who, or that which,
hinders .
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Examples
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Is it helpful or a hinderer to the political process?
Romney to give Mormon speech Teresa 2007
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Is it helpful or a hinderer to the political process?
Archive 2007-12-01 Teresa 2007
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Is it helpful or a hinderer to the political process?
Romney to give Mormon speech Teresa 2007
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Is it helpful or a hinderer to the political process?
Romney to give Mormon speech Teresa 2007
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If this theory be right, then Voltaire must naturally be abhorred by all persons who hold it, as a perverse and mischievous hinderer of light.
Voltaire 2007
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His head, shoulders, yea all his utmost strength he employeth, to remove that over-heavy hinderer of his libertie: but all his labour beeing spent in vaine, sorrow threw him in a swoond upon the Byshoppes dead body, where if both of them might at that instant have bin observed, the Arch-byshops dead bodie, and Andrea in greefe dying, very hardly had bene distinguished.
The Decameron 2004
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But one foreign bank cited the control of the banking infrastructure by the domestic banks as a hinderer of change.
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Proceeding in the same train of thought I may remark that the word deon (obligation) has a meaning which is the opposite of all the other appellations of good; for deon is here a species of good, and is, nevertheless, the chain (desmos) or hinderer of motion, and therefore own brother of blaberon.
The CRATYLUS Plato 1975
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What is "Men's damager, words 'hinderer, and yet words' arouser?"
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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[Sidenote: Discord in an armie the hinderer of all profitable enterprises.] if the two kings had not doone their best to appease the fraie begun.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First Raphael Holinshed
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