ppl. a. [f. THWART v. + -ED1.]
† 1. Placed across; crossed. Obs. rare–1.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., III. iii. § 11. All Knights-Templers make such saltire cross with their thwarted leggs upon their monuments.
2. Obstructed; frustrated, balked, defeated.
1828. Carlyle, Misc., Burns (1872), II. 13. Ever-thwarted, ever renewed endeavours.
1837. Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., xlv. (1870), II. 504. A thwarted, and therefore a painful energy of thought.
1879. Dixon, Windsor, II. xx. 208. Harry … understood the misery of a thwarted suit.
Hence Thwartedly adv.
1844. Liberty (MS) Advocate, 1 June, 1/5. The next Whig Congress, counselled and aided, non-obstructed and thwartedly, by a genuine Whig President.
1870. Ruskin, Lect. Art, vii. (1875), 179. An atmosphere through which a burning sun shines thwartedly.
