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  • noun Plural form of hinderer.

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Examples

  • They are my hinderers and my inspirations and as the actor I continuously weave through them and multitask them.

    mise-en-scène - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • They are my hinderers and my inspirations and as the actor I continuously weave through them and multitask them.

    mise-en-scène - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Thus will these hinderers of useful mass transit descend upon Washington in a united front of patriotic spirit and demand the Congress act in the interests of the nation (and themselves).

    What Sets Us Apart is What Sets Us Off 2007

  • They stand, each one of them, in body and soul equipped; and, save God himself shall hinder them, they will march into the territory of those their human hinderers, and take from them the wherewithal to support their lives.

    Oeconomicus 2007

  • Take heed to yourselves, lest your example contradict your doctrine, and lest you lay such stumbling-blocks before the blind, as may be the occasion of their ruin; lest you unsay with your lives, what you say with your tongues; and be the greatest hinderers of the success of your own labors.

    The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974

  • The harvest is great, the laborers are few; the loiterers and hinderers are many, the souls of men are precious, the misery of sinners is great, and the everlasting misery to which they are near is greater, the joys of heaven are inconceivable, the comfort of a faithful minister is not small, the joy of extensive success will be a full reward.

    The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974

  • Even more generously, he helps me (and with a helper like White I need no hinderers) to say what he wants me to mean by "connotative," but what I did not say and did not mean when I used the term.

    Letting Go White, Morton 1967

  • _Iphigenia_, being a yoong damsell of excellent bewtie, to th'intent to please the wrathfull gods, hinderers of his nauigation, after he had said all, closed it vp in this one verse, spoken in _Epiphonema_.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Say, ‘God knows the hinderers amongst you, and those who say to their brethren, “Come along unto us, ” and show but little valour; —covetous towards you.

    Medina Suras. The Chapter of the Confederates. 1909

  • As far as their own experience went, women in a hospital were always in the way, and instead of helpers became hinderers.

    The Red Book of Heroes Mrs. Lang 1909

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