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frowardness|ˈfrəʊwədnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
Froward quality or condition; perversity; untowardness; an instance of this.
a1300Cursor M. 27617 O pride bicums vnbuxumnes, strif and strutt, and frawardnes. a1340Hampole Psalter liv. 22 Dwelland in frawardnes of þaire witt. c1440Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 155 Frowardnes comyth fro þe herte, but þe tunge schewyth it out thrugh ouer-thwerte woordys. c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (Camden) 223 He did it not for any self-will or frowardness. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 393 The frowardnesse of my fortune. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. vi. §21 The pride, frowardness, and perversness of the Rebels. 1712Berkeley Pass. Obed. §42 We should not..shew a frowardness or impatience of those transient sufferings. a1716South Serm. II. 78 How many Frowardnesses of ours does he smother, how many Indignities does he pass by. 1775Burke Sp. Conc. Amer. Wks. (1808) III. 62 It is nothing but a little sally of anger, like the frowardness of peevish children, who, when they cannot get all they would have, are resolved to take nothing. 1848W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc's Hist. Ten Y. I. 188 Giving way to one of his occasional fits of boyish frowardness, he dashed his sword on the floor. |