Definition of Impediment

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Definition of Impediment
	Impediment That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect. To impede. Related Definitions: Activity, Effect, Impede, Motion, Or, Progress, That, To, Which

Impediment Quotations

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
Honore de Balzac

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
Sophocles

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
Jimmy Durante

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
Constance Baker Motley

Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
John Philip Sousa

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
Henry James Sumner Maine

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.
Peter Stuyvesant

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.
Tobe Hooper

Impediment Translations

impediment in Latin is impedimentum
impediment in Norwegian is hinder
impediment in Spanish is impedimento
impediment in Swedish is hinder

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