impediment

Definition

A hindrance; that which impedes or obstructs progress; impedance.

Etymology

From Middle English impediment, borrowed from Latin impedimentum.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment."
• "Your kind Deſire to knovv the State of my Health had not been unſatiſfied of ſo long, had not that ill State been the Impediment."

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