impediment
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impediment englanniksi
A hindrance; that which impedes or obstructs progress; impedance.
(RQ:Book of Common Prayer)
(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3)
(RQ:Pope Correspondence)
(RQ:Mary Shelley Frankenstein)
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(quote-journal)
A disability, especially one affecting the hearing or speech.
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(RQ:King James Version)
1730, (w), ''The Evidences of the Christian Religion'', London: J. Tonson, Additional Discourses, Section 10, p. 308,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004846596.0001.000
- Let us suppose a person blind and deaf from his birth, who being grown to man’s estate, is by the Dead-palsy, or some other cause, deprived of his Feeling, Tasting, and Smelling; and at the same time has the impediment of his Hearing removed, and the film taken from his eyes (..)
(RQ:Carlyle Friedrich)
(quote-text) Walter Ivans replied as rapidly as the impediment in his speech permitted.
Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta.
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