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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
athwart /əˈθwɔːt/

▶preposition

1 from side to side of; across.

2 counter to.

▶adverb

1 across from side to side; transversely.

2 so as to be perverse or contradictory.

– origin ME: from a-2 + thwart.

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