All 9 Uses
hinder
in
Dante's Inferno
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- CONTENTS CANTO I. Dante, astray in a wood, reaches the foot of a hill which he begins to ascend; he is hindered by three beasts; he turns back and is met by Virgil, who proposes to guide him into the eternal world.†
Canto T.O.hindered = slowed down or caused problems for
- CANTO I. Dante, astray in a wood, reaches the foot of a hill which he begins to ascend; he is hindered by three beasts; he turns back and is met by Virgil, who proposes to guide him into the eternal world.†
Canto 1-3
- And she did not move from before my face, nay, rather hindered so my road that to return I oftentimes had turned.†
Canto 1-3
- "Thee it behoves to hold another course," he replied, when he saw me weeping, "if thou wishest to escape from this savage place; for this beast, because of which thou criest out, lets not any one pass along her way, but so hinders him that she kills him!†
Canto 1-3hinders = slows down or causes problems for
- a friend of mine and not of fortune upon the desert hillside is so hindered on his road that he has turned for fear, and I am afraid, through that which I have heard of him in heaven, lest already he be so astray that I may have risen late to his succor.†
Canto 1-3hindered = slowed down or caused problems for
- Hinder not his fated going; thus is it willed there where is power to do that which is willed; and ask thou no more.†
Canto 4-6 *
- His hinder feet he stretched upon the thighs, and put his tail between the two, and behind bent it up along the reins.†
Canto 25-27
- Then the hinder feet, twisted together, became the member that man conceals, and the wretched one from his had two[1] stretched forth.†
Canto 25-27
- [1] Hinder feet†
Canto 25-27
Definitions:
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(1)
(hinder as in: hindered by) slow down or cause problems for
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)