Meaning of overthwart | Babel Free

Definitions

That which is overthwart; an adverse circumstance; opposition.

obsolete

Examples

“A hart wel stayd, in ouerthwartes depe, Hopeth amendes: in swete, doth feare the sowre.”

“We thinke the heavens enjoy their Sphericall Their round proportion embracing all. But yet their various and perplexed course, Observ’d in divers ages doth enforce Men to finde out so many Eccentrique parts, Such divers downe-right lines, such overthwarts, As disproportion that pure forme. […]”

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