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Thwarter

noun
1.
Someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take.  Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, obstructor, resister.






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"Thwarter" Quotes from Famous Books



... prayed for his son's happy voyage, he arrived at the seaport, near to Sammalo, accompanied with Panurge, Epistemon, Friar John of the Funnels, Abbot of Theleme, and others of the royal house, especially with Xenomanes the great traveller and thwarter of dangerous ways, who was come at the bidding and appointment of Panurge, of whose castlewick of Salmigondin he did hold some petty inheritance by the tenure of a mesne fee. Pantagruel, being come thither, prepared and made ready for launching a ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais



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