Another word for stumbling block

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stumbling block

obstacle, hindrance, barricade; see barrier, difficulty 1, 2.

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Being and not being are thus declared identical - a proposition which in this unqualified shape was to most people a stumbling-block at the very door of the system.
This introduction of the absolute became a stumbling-block to Feuerbach and other members of the " Left."
Therefore the Holy Ghost in His providence hath removed this stumbling-block," &c. &c. (In Sent.
Nor was their complexity a stumbling-block.
Zeno visited all the schools in turn, but seems to have attached himself definitely to the Cynics;, as a Cynic he composed at least one of his more important works, " the much admired Republic," which we know to have been later on a stumbling-block to the school.

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