1. athwart - Adverb
2. athwart - Preposition
Across; from side to side of.
Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course.
Across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely.
Across the course; so as to thwart; perversely.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAh, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it'' Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it. William F. Buckley
Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream? Lewis Carroll
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!' William F. Buckley
It is part of the meaning of suffering that it is that which cuts athwart our purposive movements. It represents the denial from beyond ourselves of our movement toward pleasure; or it is the frustration of our movement toward self-realization or toward the actualization of our potentialities. H. Richard Niebuhr