All 3 Uses of
impede
in
A Room of One's Own
- Therefore his poetry flows from him free and unimpeded.†
Chpt 3unimpeded = not slowed or blockedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unimpeded means not and reverses the meaning of impeded. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- If ever a mind was incandescent, unimpeded, I thought, turning again to the bookcase, it was Shakespeare's mind.†
Chpt 3
- He is therefore impeded and inhibited and self-conscious as Shakespeare might have been if he too had known Miss Clough and Miss Davies.†
Chpt 6 *impeded = slowed or prevented (something made more difficult)
Definition:
create difficulty so as to slow or prevent (something)