Word Meanings - OBSTRUCTIONISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or the policy of obstructing progress. Lond. Lit. World.

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• WORLDLY
  1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
• PROGRESS
  to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. 1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically: In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
• OBSTRUCTIVE
  Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment. -- Ob*struct"ive*ly, adv.
• WORLDLY-MINDED
  Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
• PROGRESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
• WORLD-WIDE
  Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. Tennyson.
• OBSTRUCTIONIST
  One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. -- a.
• PROGRESSION
  Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic. (more info) 1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward. 2. Course; passage; lapse
• OBSTRUCTER
  One who obstructs or hinders.
• WORLDLING
  A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments. A foutre for the world and worldlings base. Shak. If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument. Rogers.
• OBSTRUCT
  before or against, to obstruct; ob + struere to pile up. 1. To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing; as, to obstruct a street;
• PROGRESSIST
  One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist.
• WORLDLYWISE; WORLDLY-WISE
  Wise in regard to things of this world. Bunyan.
• PROGRESSIVE PARTY
  The political party formed, chiefly out of the Republican party, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912. The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates
• OBSTRUCTION
  1. The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed. 2. That which obstructs or impedes; an obstacle; an impediment; a hindrance. A popular assembly free from obstruction. Swift. 3. The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their
• POLICY
  1. Civil polity. 2. The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state. 3. The method
• WORLDLINESS
  The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness.
• PROGRESSIONIST
  1. One who holds to a belief in the progression of society toward perfection. 2. One who maintains the doctrine of progression in organic forms; -- opposed to uniformitarian. H. Spencer.
• WORLD
  worold; akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt, worolt, werolt, werlt, G. welt, Icel. veröld, Sw. verld, Dan. verden; properly, the age of man, lifetime, humanity; AS. wer a man + a word akin to E. old; cf. AS. yld lifetime, age, ylde men,
• OBSTRUCTIONISM
  The act or the policy of obstructing progress. Lond. Lit. World.
• IMPOLICY
  The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.
• MISPOLICY
  Wrong policy; impolicy.
• INTERWORLD
  A world between other worlds. Holland.
• UNDERWORLD
  1. The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth. That overspreads This underworld. Daniel. 2. The mythological place of departed souls; Hades. 3. The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite