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Definition of Hindering
1. Adjective. Preventing movement. "The clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street"
Similar to: Preventative, Preventive
Derivative terms: Obstruct
Definition of Hindering
1. Verb. (present participle of hinder) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hindering
1. hinder [v] - See also: hinder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hindering
Literary usage of Hindering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Discourse Concerning the Divine Providence by William Sherlock (1851)
"First, then, I suppose I may take it for granted, that the justice of providence
does not consist in hindering all acts of injustice and violence. ..."
2. Latin Composition by Bernard Melzar Allen, John Lewis Phillips (1909)
"Negative expressions of hindering, Restraining, and Doubting are followed ...
Verbs of hindering and Restraining, if positive, are regularly followed by ne ..."
3. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1897)
"As hindering voters at an election is a misdemeanor only, it is permissible to
join in the same count charges for hindering and conspiring to hinder at the ..."
4. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Horace Smith, Alfred Percival Perceval Keep (1896)
"1, persons hindering the exportation of corn by violence may be dealt with
summarily by two justices of the peace, (a) By sec. 2, ' if any person or persons ..."
5. A History of the United States by William Coligny Doub (1906)
"Conditions hindering Discoveries and Explorations.— While the great mass of the
people of Europe at the time the New World was discovered were not so ..."
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