Both Uses
impediment
in
Middlemarch
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- Partly it was the reception of his own artistic production that tickled him; partly the notion of his grave cousin as the lover of that girl; and partly Mr. Brooke's definition of the place he might have held but for the impediment of indolence.†
Chpt 1
- He had two selves within him apparently, and they must learn to accommodate each other and bear reciprocal impediments.†
Chpt 2 *impediments = things that interfere with action or progress
Definitions:
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(1)
(impediment) something that interferes with action or progress
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)