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- verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of
hinder
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Examples
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We stopped before her, yet she paid no heed to us neither veiled her face: so I said to her, ‘O old woman,251 wert thou to dye thy hair black, thou wouldst be handsomer than a girl: what hindereth thee from this?’
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Quoth the King to the man, “What hindereth thee from sowing thy land?”
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Long have I chid thee but my chiding hindereth thee not
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Long have I chid thee, but my chiding hindereth thee not, vii.
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So one of the eunuchs said to him, “O dog of the Arabs, what hindereth thy saluting the Commander of the Faithful?”
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When thou liest with a man who is lean, he hath no ease of thee; nor can he anyways take his pleasure of thee; for the bigness of thy belly holdeth him off from going in unto thee and the fatness of thy thighs hindereth him from coming at thy slit.
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Khatun, “I have a mind to tell thee the first part of his history; but shame of thee hindereth me therefrom.”
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If he be bearded the mosquitoes sting him not, and naught hindereth them from me but my beard.
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Now thou must note that nowise she hindereth thee from faring in this wood, and that is because she wotteth, as I do, that by this way there is no outgoing for thee.
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It cannot be spared, nor left behind, but it hindereth the march; yea, and the care of it, sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory.
The Essays 2007
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