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noun

Setback n.

(Arch.) Offset, n., 4.

A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy. (U. S.)

A reversal of progress in an endeavor; a reverse; a backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse. (Colloq. U.S.)

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Etymology of 'Setback'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Setback" Quotes from Famous Books

... eat heartily, seeking to divert his mind in the meantime from the disaster that had befallen the battalion to the big issues at stake, and pointing out with resolute cheerfulness that the calamity that had befallen the battalion was only a temporary setback. ...

— The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land • Ralph Connor

... faced a very serious problem of economic and social recovery. For four and a half years that recovery proceeded apace. It is only in the past seven months that it has received a visible setback. ...

— The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

... Wolfram's first effort, I say, I can hardly tolerate, considered as a piece of composition; yet, shortened, it would be admirably in place. From the moment Tannhaeuser begins all is perfect. Tannhaeuser's music grows in intensity, and Wagner is careful not to give us a setback by allowing the other singers to throw Wolfram-ian cold douches over us; on the contrary, they get excited, too; and the orchestra is let loose with them by degrees, until in the last outburst it is blazing and crackling as though ...

— Richard Wagner - Composer of Operas • John F. Runciman

... read: "We hope that the setback to civilisation, the check to commerce and development, in this promising centre of our colony may be but temporary; and that capital may again come to the rescue. Where one man was successful, others should surely not fail? We are convinced that ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... him behind closed doors with his doctors and his temperature. We may knock every morning and ask how he is, and we shall be told that he is no better. He was even delirious at times. And it is only worth while going into this setback of G. G's because there are miracles connected with it—his daily ...

— IT and Other Stories • Gouverneur Morris

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