2. Adjective. impeded or encumbered as if chained or fettered ¹
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Definition of Hampered
1. hamper [v] - See also: hamper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hampered
Literary usage of Hampered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... endowed with brilliant and learned professors in all the branches, was .greatly
hampered by the multiplicity of statutes by which it was governed. ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1880)
"the attending staff, certainly influenced, perhaps a little hampered, by the
traditions of a century, are, as their predecessors ever have been, ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"These Protestant missions have the commendation of the higher and the secret
execration of the lower Portuguese officials; they are also hampered by the ..."
4. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"Kendall hampered by the Vails. — Proposition by capitalists to purchase patent
righto. — Cyrus W. Field. — Newfoundland Electric Telegraph Company. ..."
5. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"Kendall hampered by the Vails. — Proposition by capitalists to purchase patent
rights. — Cyrus W. Field. — Newfoundland Electric Telegraph Company. ..."
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