NOUN
- the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
How To Use hinderance In A Sentence
- Unfortunately, another hinderance is your son’s age. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Trying to Find a Job As A Teenager
- The Lord grant that I may at last become an obedient and truly teachable child; for that faculty, whatsoever it be, that asks vociferously, seems not to be the one which, as I.P. says, "_graspingly receives," _ but is rather a hinderance to its reception. A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England
- The other hinderance is the supply of mortgages. Times, Sunday Times
- And therfore this as the rest breadeth no hinderance to this most commodious discouery. The Worldes Hydrographical Discription
- What you think to be a hinderance is your best encouragement; for, "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners," and therefore to save such as you. Come to Jesus. 36 p.
- If you have an ambition to do anything in the world, or to be anything more than a plodding character in the tide of human life, see to it that the man whom you are to marry is one who is competent to aid you in the attainment of noble and useful things, instead of being an "incumbrance" and a hinderance. Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
- Now hee found nothing to his hinderance, in obtaining the heighth of his hearts desire, but onely the strict custodie and guard, wherein his brother Bajazeth kept her: which raised a cruell conceite in his minde, wherein followed (not long after) as cruell an effect. The Decameron
- These are all hinderances, clogs, and burdens, and, according to the proper Latin word, they are called impedimenta bellica. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
- But DeMartino counters that he sees little evidence that party affiliation is a major hinderance to his campaign. GOP hitching ride on Fenty's coattails into four council races
- Perhaps it should be more of a bell shaped curve, because after a certain point the accent is no longer sexy but a hinderance to communication and thus making friends. Exchange students always have pals.
