[f. THWART v. + -ER1.] One who or that which ihwarts.
† 1. One who traverses or goes across. Obs. rare–1
a. 1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. xlix. 394. Xenomanes the great Traveller, and Thwarter of dangerous ways.
2. One who or that which obstructs the path or action of another; an opponent, adversary, obstructor, frustrater.
1633. T. Adams, Exp. 2 Peter i. 2. O happy soul, that can make his thwarters that cross him, become his porters to carry him to the place of his rest.
1687. Wood, Life, 16 Aug. (O.H.S.), III. 224. Dr. Fell … would never suffer him to beare that office because a thwarter of him in severall public matters.
1738. trans. Guazzo’s Art Conversation, 71. Those whom I call Contentious and Thwarters are, for the most Part, gross, thick-headed Fellows.
1869. Hughes, Alfred Gt., xii. 141. The thwarters of the King’s will repented.
