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n. - Someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take.

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  • 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...
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  • When I entered who should I see but the eternal thwarter of my happiness, the ever-present Nicholson!
  • 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...
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