Both Uses of
hamper
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section,—that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon.†
Chpt 1-3
- And then I was hampered with that bothering show, which I'm free of at last, thank the stars."†
Chpt 52-54 *
Definition:
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(hamper as in: hampered by) to hinder; i.e., slow down or cause problems for