1. hindrance - Noun
2. hindrance - Verb
The act of hindering, or the state of being hindered.
That which hinders; an impediment.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI consider it absurd that we should permit our senses to sate themselves without hindrance with their own material food, but that we should exclude the mind alone from its own particular activity. Basil of Caesarea
You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go. Ralph Steadman
The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith. Martin Luther
I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues. W. Somerset Maugham
If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge. Max Stirner
Something between a hindrance and a help. William Wordsworth