All 4 Uses of
hinder
in
The Comedy of Errors
- Why, sir, I brought you word an hour since that the bark Expedition put forth to-night; and then were you hindered by the sergeant, to tarry for the hoy, Delay: here are the angels that you sent for to deliver you.†
Scene 4.3 *
- I am sorry, sir, that I have hinder'd you; But I protest he had the chain of me, Though most dishonestly he doth deny it.†
Scene 5.1
- It seems his sleeps were hindered by thy railing: And thereof comes it that his head is light.†
Scene 5.1
- Thou say'st his sports were hinder'd by thy brawls: Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,— Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair,— And, at her heels, a huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?†
Scene 5.1
Definition:
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(hinder as in: hindered by) slow down or cause problems for