See impediment in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1549, “Of Matrimonye”, in The Booke of Common Prayer and Administracion of the Sacramentes:",
"text": "I require and charge you (as you will aunswere at the dreadefull daye of iudgemente, when the secretes of all hartes shalbee disclosed) that if either of you doe knowe any impedimente why ye maie not bee lawfully ioyned together in matrimonie, that ye confesse it.",
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"ref": "c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:",
"text": "Thus far into the bowels of the land\nHave we marched on without impediment.",
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"text": "1720, Alexander Pope, letter to Robert Digby dated 20 July, 1720, in Mr. Pope’s Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years; from 1704 to 1734, London: E. Curll, 1735, p. 129,\nYour kind Desire to know the State of my Health had not been unsatisfied of so long, had not that ill State been the Impediment."
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"ref": "1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 2, in Frankenstein, archived from the original on 2012-04-03:",
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"ref": "1993, Carol Shields, chapter 2, in The Stone Diaries, Toronto: Random House of Canada, page 64:",
"text": "Patterns incised on this mineral form seem to evade the eye; you have to stand at a certain distance, and in a particular light, to make them out. This impediment is part of the charm for him.",
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "piedică"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "obstacol"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "poméxa",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "поме́ха"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prepjátstvije",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "препя́тствие"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "amaladh"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "пре̏прека"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "пре̏пона"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "prȅpreka"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "prȅpona"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "prekážka"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ovira"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"word": "estorbo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "hinder"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"word": "bagko"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "āṭaṅkaṁ",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"word": "ఆటంకం"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "aḍḍaṁ",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"word": "అడ్డం"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pereškóda",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "перешко́да"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "perepóna",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "перепо́на"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prytýčyna",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "прити́чина"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zaváda",
"sense": "hindrance; that which impedes progress",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "зава́да"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "disability, especially one affecting the hearing or speech",
"word": "vamma"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "disability, especially one affecting the hearing or speech",
"word": "hauātanga"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "obóz",
"sense": "baggage, especially that of an army",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "обо́з"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obóz",
"sense": "baggage, especially that of an army",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "обо́з"
}
],
"word": "impediment"
}
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