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noun

Setback n.

(Arch.) Offset, n., 4.

A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy. (U. S.)

A reversal of progress in an endeavor; a reverse; a backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse. (Colloq. U.S.)

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"Setback" Quotes from Famous Books

... capital would be such of my fortune as is not tied up in the House—about a hundred thousand dollars in Government bonds. Of course, in time, if all goes well, and California does not have another setback—if business improves all over the world—I shall be able to take the rest of my money out, that I put into this end of the business after the fire; but that may be ten years hence. I shouldn't even ask for interest on it—that would be the ...

— The Avalanche • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... this setback Attila did not abandon the hope of conquest. The next year he led his still formidable army over the Julian Alps and burned or plundered many towns of northern Italy. A few trembling fugitives sought shelter on the islands ...

— EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY • HUTTON WEBSTER

... well-organised army. This result was what the Emperor had intended, in the expectation of using for his own ends all the military resources of the country; something which he was in fact able to do as long as we were successful. But on the first setback, the thirty-two sovereigns, by agreement among themselves, united in opposition to France, and their coalition with the Russians overthrew the Emperor Napoleon, who was thus punished for not following the ancient policies of the ...

— The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, Translated by - Oliver C. Colt • Baron de Marbot

... the peace by hiding his face in his coffee cup. Sarah, though checked by this flank attack, was herself an old hand in the art. So temporary was the setback that she scarcely paused ere hurling her assault from a ...

— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London

... progress of the work had met with a severe setback in A.D. 1587, when Taiko Sama issued an edict expelling all foreign religious teachers from Japan. In pursuance of this edict nine foreigners who had evaded expulsion were burnt at Nagasaki. The reason for ...

— Japan • David Murray

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