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  • noun Plural form of thwarter.

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Examples

  • They ought to take legal action against fellows like that on the ground that they are thwarters of merry parties and destroyers of harvest weather.

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig Various

  • But in them their earthly love, and familiarity with Him, hid from them His higher glory; and in them He found impediments to His true consecration, and would-be thwarters of His highest work.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • 'After death the judgment'; and what will become of the thwarters of the divine counsel then?

    Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • God, and one to another; and will assuredly come in, in the judgment, against all those that shall be found crossers, and thwarters of what God by the creatures doth hold forth to us.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

  • Hedo Turkoglu and Rashard Lewis were Howard's main double-team thwarters during the season, but in the playoffs Lee has stepped into the void created by their woeful shooting.

    FOXSports.com News 2009

  • Hedo Turkoglu and Rashard Lewis were Howard's main double-team thwarters during the season, but in the playoffs Lee has stepped into the void created by their woeful shooting.

    FOXSports.com News 2009

  • Eager malware-thwarters from the United States, Brazil, and Israel will get first dibs on the public beta of the free software, available for both 32 - and

    Digital Home Thoughts.com 2009

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