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hampered, ppl. a.|ˈhæmpəd|
[f. hamper v.1 + -ed1.]
Fettered, entangled, impeded, encumbered, embarrassed: see the verb.
1633G. Herbert Temple, Home xi, As an entangled, hamper'd thing. 1635Quarles Embl. iii. xv. (1718) 186 These fleshly fetters, that so fast involve My hamper'd soul. 1890Boldrewood Col. Reformer (1891) 108 A toiling owner of a small station, a hampered purchaser of a larger one.
Hence ˈhamperedly adv.; ˈhamperedness.
1831Carlyle Let. in Froude Life in Lond. (1882) II. viii. 211 The worst thing about our establishment is its hamperedness. 1837― Mirabeau in Misc. Ess. (1888) V. 254 Count de Mirabeau ‘rides in the garden of forty paces’ with quick turns, hamperedly. |