[f. THWART v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb THWART.
† 1. Going athwart, crossing. Obs. rare–1.
c. 1440. Gesta Rom., xlvi. 193 (Harl. MS.). By the Ringe we muste vndirstonde feithe, for that owithe to be Rounde like a Ringe, and with oute eny twartynge.
b. Cross-ploughing.
1847. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., VIII. II. 318. After the first thwarting of the fallow (cross-ploughing),… the clods are worked … into about the size of a hen’s egg.
2. Opposition; hindrance, impediment; defeating, frustration.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, IV. lii. (1869), 200. Þe arguynge, ne þe thuartinge is no thing worth ayens us, ne ayens deth neither.
1581. Mulcaster, Positions, xxviii. (1887), 109. A number of lettes and thwartings which art did prescribe.
1609. Douland, Ornith. Microl., 79. A Discord … is the hard and rough thwarting of two sounds not mingled with themselues.
1653. R. Sanders, Physiogn., 53. Great thwartings and misfortunes by the means of women.
1825. Scott, Jrnl., 23 Dec. Those thwartings are what men in public life do not like to endure.
