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Overthwart   Listen
adjective
Overthwart  adj.  
1.
Having a transverse position; placed or situated across; hence, opposite. "Our overthwart neighbors."
2.
Crossing in kind or disposition; perverse; adverse; opposing. "Overthwart humor."





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"Overthwart" Quotes from Famous Books



... to her sate sober Modestie, Holding her hand upon her gentle hart; And her against, sate comely Curtesie, That unto every person knew her part; And her before was seated overthwart Soft Silence, and submisse Obedience, Both linckt ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3) • John Ruskin


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