frowardadj.adv.prep.

Brit.

/ˈfrəʊ(w)əd/, U.S.

/ˈfroʊ(w)ərd/

Forms: α. Middle English fraward, Middle English Orm. frawarrd, Middle English frawarde, frawerd, frauward, Middle English–1500s Scottish frawart, 1500s frauwerde; β. Middle English– froward, Middle English frowerd, Middle English–1500s frowarde.

Etymology: Early Middle English < fra , fro prep. + -ward suffix. Compare fromward adj., adv., and prep.

A. adj. (Not now in colloquial use.)

1. Disposed to go counter to what is demanded or what is reasonable; perverse, difficult to deal with, hard to please; refractory, ungovernable; †also, in a wider sense, bad, evilly-disposed, ‘naughty’. (The opposite of toward.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > perverse

wharfedc1175

thwart-over?c1225

fromwardc1275

thwarta1325

wilgernc1325

contrariousa1340

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awaywarda1375

overthwartc1384

protervec1384

waywardc1384

arsewardc1386

wrawc1386

wrawfulc1386

crabbeda1400

ungraitha1400

wraweda1400

awklyc1400

perversec1425

awkc1440

perversiosec1475

crooked1508

wrayward1516

awkward1530

difficilec1533

peevish1539

protervous1547

overthwarting1552

untowardly1561

difficult1589

cross1594

cama1600

frowish1601

awkwardish1613

haggardly1635

pigheadeda1637

cross-grained1647

wry1649

crossfulc1680

thwarting1718

kim-kama1734

wronghead1737

piggish1742

witherly1790

top-thrawn1808

contrary1850

cussed1858

three-cornered1863

thwarteous1890

bloody-minded1935

1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 5854 If man be til God frawarde.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xxi. 18 If a man gete a rebel sone, and a fraward.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 319 To chaste froward men and sturne men.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7302 ‘Parfai’, þan answard samuel, ‘Yee ar to fraward [Trin. Cambr. frowarde] wit to dele’.

14.. Why I can't be a Nun 317 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 146 For sum bene devowte, holy, and towarde..And sum bene feble, lewde, and frowarde.

c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Legend St. Austin (Harl. 2255) l. 177 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 198 How may this be that thou art [so] froward To hooly chirche to pay thy dewtee.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. vi. 13 Ye shall be safe..agaynste the frowarde temptour.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 167^v The Cocke of this kind, is a froward and a mischiuous Byrd.

1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. ii. 28 Samuel reiected..by this froward & rebellious people.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 140 A Froward Retention of Custome, is as turbulent a Thing, as an Innouation.

1690 W. Temple Ess. Poetry 63 in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. When all is done, Human Life is at the greatest and the best, but like a froward Child, that must be Play'd with and Humour'd a little, to keep ite quiet, till it falls asleep.

1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. Ded. sig. bi That this Remark may not look froward or angry.

a1716 O. Blackall Wks. (1723) I. v. 45 Such froward and touchy People as these.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1775 I. 481 [Johnson:] A Judge may become froward from age.

1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 270 In the infancy of taste, the froward pupils of art took nature to pieces, as spoiled children do a watch.

1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. v. vii. 54 ‘Speak on,’ said Hilda, calmly, as a nurse to a froward child.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1858) IV. xix. 291 Russell had always been froward, arrogant, and mutinous.

absolute.1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xvii[i]. 26 With the frowarde thou shalt be frowarde.1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. iii. 47 They may remove the froward from their offices.1842 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. VI. 346 If you bear with the froward.

2. Of things: †(a) adverse, unfavourable, untoward; difficult to deal with, refractory; (of shape (cf. sense B. 2)) ill-formed, ugly (obsolete); (b) (in later use only as figurative of sense A. 1 (said, e.g., of fortune)) perverse, ill-humoured.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or intractable (of things)

wickc1330

riotous1340

wickeda1352

untreatablec1374

frowarda1400

inobedient1495

stubborn?1518

unwieldya1538

unruly1548

wieldlessa1560

hard1560

untoward1566

tickle1570

churlish1577

unwieldsome1579

rebellious1587

disobedient1588

unframeable1593

unwilling1593

untractable1601

unmanageable1606

intractable1607

surly1609

unwedgeablea1616

dogged1627

uncontrollable1648

obdurate1651

morose1652

uncompliant1659

sullen1678

unpliant1716

ungovernable1773

sulky1867

intractile1880

unwieldly1881

bunglesome1915

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [adjective] > unfavourable

contrariousc1320

bada1325

contraryinga1340

adversea1393

frowarda1400

contrairc1400

fremd1423

adversant?a1425

sinister1432

perversea1450

undisposed1456

sinistral?a1475

contrary1477

favourless1509

unfriendlya1513

thwarting1530

wayward?1544

contrariant1548

disfavourable1561

cross1565

unindifferent1565

sinistrous1566

haggard1578

unkindly1579

backward1582

awkward1587

improsperous1598

thwart1610

unpropitious1613

averted1619

untoward1621

averse1623

impropitious1638

sinister1726

unfavourable1748

untowardly1756

unfavouring1835

a1400 Seuyn Sages (W.) 2622 The weder was cold & froward.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8104 Bi-halden vs inogh has þou Vr fraward scapp al ses þou hov.

1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems 103 By froward chaunce my hood was gone.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. ii. 149 Syryus, the frawart star.

1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 1450 This delycate dasy, With frowarde frostis, alas was all to-fret.

?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Diij, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Curacyon of frowarde and rebel vlceres.

1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. Argt. 120 To take his froward fortune and untoward luck with..patience.

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 213 It has been my froward fate to have too much.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §270 During this month of froward weather.

a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) v. 156 The froward chaos of futurity.

1880 R. Broughton Second Thoughts II. ii. vii. 31 The froward May month.

†3. quasi-n. A froward person or thing. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > perverseness > person

frowarda1529

haggard1576

pig-sconcea1640

wronghead1729

crooked stick1848

pig-head1874

thrawn stick1893

a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. C.iii Our language is so rusty So cankered and so full Of frowardes.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 266 b Through the cankerd peevishnes of wayward frowardes.

†B. adv. Obsolete.

1. In a direction that leads away from the person or thing under consideration; = fromward adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > direction > [adverb] > away from some thing or place

awayeOE

outeOE

frowardOE

offOE

yondwardc1275

yonwarda1387

waywardsc1390

fromwarda1547

offward1582

fromwardsa1661

orf1845

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [adverb]

awayeOE

awaywardc1225

awaywardsc1275

froa1400

frowardc1426

froma1450

OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1127 Eall þæt þa beon dragen toward swa frett þa drane & dragað fraward.

c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 67 Ȝif þou to þe cherche go, To-ward, fro-ward, or ellis cum fro.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxxvii. f. lxiiii He myghte goo, or Ryde, frowarde or sydewarde, but towarde the Chapell myght he in no wyse atteygne.

a1554 J. Croke tr. Thirteen Psalms (1844) xiii. 34 Thy face allwey thus wolt thou let Be turned froward?

1611 Spenser's Faerie Queen (new ed.) vi. x. sig. Ff6^v And eke themselues so in their dance they bore, That two of them still froward seem'd to be, But one still towards shew'd her selfe afore.

2. figurative. Untowardly; perversely. froward shapen = misshapen (cf. fromshapen adj.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective] > not shapely or deformed

unshapelyc1200

forcrookedc1305

deform1382

froward shapena1400

misshapena1400

deformedc1400

misshape1440

deformablec1450

disformatea1492

misshapeda1500

deformate?a1505

fashionless1581

unfashionable1597

shapeless1598

ill-proportioned1602

disformed1665

untrained1871

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [adverb] > unfavourably

illc1325

contrariouslyc1380

amissa1425

contrary1497

sinisterly1529

overthwart1556

thwartingly1579

froward1580

adversely1593

crossly1597

unpropitiously1602

cross1603

disfavourably1654

cloudily1792

unfavourably1833

askew1858

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8076 Sagh man neuer for-wit þat hore, Sua fraward scapen creature.

1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 125^v Thou knowest howe frowarde matters went, when thou tokest shippe.

†C. prep.

a. (In a direction) away from; = fromward prep. Also in form frowards. Obsolete (or archaic).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > direction > in the direction of [preposition] > away from

offeOE

fromwardsc1000

from offlOE

frowardsc1175

fromward?c1225

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > in a direction away from (of motion) [preposition]

frowardsc1175

fro‥wardc1220

fromward?c1225

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4672 Þa turrnesst tu þe frawarrd godd. & towarrd eorþlic ahhte.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3322 At euen cam a fugel-fligt, Fro-ward arabie to hem rigt.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ii. viii. 36 The angels slake neuer..nother tornyth theyr entent frowarde god.

c1400 Melayne 1314 The Sowdane..sawe the Cristen in the felde Frowarde the Cite ride.

1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur x. xxx And euer sire Tristram tracyd and trauercyd and wente froward hym here and there.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 786 Frawart the south thaim thocht it best to draw.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. i. 57 Scho thame fordrivis, and causis oft ga will Frawart Latium.

1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid iv. Prol. 130 Thy self or thame thou frawartis God remouis.

1861 D. G. Rossetti tr. Dante Vita Nuova in Early Ital. Poets ii. 305 He only is a pilgrim who goeth towards or frowards the House of St. James.

b. with tmesis fro..ward.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > in a direction away from (of motion) [preposition]

frowardsc1175

fro‥wardc1220

fromward?c1225

c1220 Bestiary 719 And wende we neure fro him-ward.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	froward
释义	frowardadj.adv.prep. Brit. /ˈfrəʊ(w)əd/, U.S. /ˈfroʊ(w)ərd/ Forms: α. Middle English fraward, Middle English Orm. frawarrd, Middle English frawarde, frawerd, frauward, Middle English–1500s Scottish frawart, 1500s frauwerde; β. Middle English– froward, Middle English frowerd, Middle English–1500s frowarde. Etymology: Early Middle English < fra , fro prep. + -ward suffix. Compare fromward adj., adv., and prep. A. adj. (Not now in colloquial use.) 1. Disposed to go counter to what is demanded or what is reasonable; perverse, difficult to deal with, hard to please; refractory, ungovernable; †also, in a wider sense, bad, evilly-disposed, ‘naughty’. (The opposite of toward.) ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > perverse wharfedc1175 thwart-over?c1225 fromwardc1275 thwarta1325 wilgernc1325 contrariousa1340 froward1340 rebours1340 awaywarda1375 overthwartc1384 protervec1384 waywardc1384 arsewardc1386 wrawc1386 wrawfulc1386 crabbeda1400 ungraitha1400 wraweda1400 awklyc1400 perversec1425 awkc1440 perversiosec1475 crooked1508 wrayward1516 awkward1530 difficilec1533 peevish1539 protervous1547 overthwarting1552 untowardly1561 difficult1589 cross1594 cama1600 frowish1601 awkwardish1613 haggardly1635 pigheadeda1637 cross-grained1647 wry1649 crossfulc1680 thwarting1718 kim-kama1734 wronghead1737 piggish1742 witherly1790 top-thrawn1808 contrary1850 cussed1858 three-cornered1863 thwarteous1890 bloody-minded1935 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 5854 If man be til God frawarde. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xxi. 18 If a man gete a rebel sone, and a fraward. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 319 To chaste froward men and sturne men. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7302 ‘Parfai’, þan answard samuel, ‘Yee ar to fraward [Trin. Cambr. frowarde] wit to dele’. 14.. Why I can't be a Nun 317 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 146 For sum bene devowte, holy, and towarde..And sum bene feble, lewde, and frowarde. c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Legend St. Austin (Harl. 2255) l. 177 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 198 How may this be that thou art [so] froward To hooly chirche to pay thy dewtee. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. vi. 13 Ye shall be safe..agaynste the frowarde temptour. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 167^v The Cocke of this kind, is a froward and a mischiuous Byrd. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. ii. 28 Samuel reiected..by this froward & rebellious people. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 140 A Froward Retention of Custome, is as turbulent a Thing, as an Innouation. 1690 W. Temple Ess. Poetry 63 in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. When all is done, Human Life is at the greatest and the best, but like a froward Child, that must be Play'd with and Humour'd a little, to keep ite quiet, till it falls asleep. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. Ded. sig. bi That this Remark may not look froward or angry. a1716 O. Blackall Wks. (1723) I. v. 45 Such froward and touchy People as these. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1775 I. 481 [Johnson:] A Judge may become froward from age. 1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 270 In the infancy of taste, the froward pupils of art took nature to pieces, as spoiled children do a watch. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. v. vii. 54 ‘Speak on,’ said Hilda, calmly, as a nurse to a froward child. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1858) IV. xix. 291 Russell had always been froward, arrogant, and mutinous. absolute.1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xvii[i]. 26 With the frowarde thou shalt be frowarde.1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. iii. 47 They may remove the froward from their offices.1842 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. VI. 346 If you bear with the froward. 2. Of things: †(a) adverse, unfavourable, untoward; difficult to deal with, refractory; (of shape (cf. sense B. 2)) ill-formed, ugly (obsolete); (b) (in later use only as figurative of sense A. 1 (said, e.g., of fortune)) perverse, ill-humoured. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or intractable (of things) wickc1330 riotous1340 wickeda1352 untreatablec1374 frowarda1400 inobedient1495 stubborn?1518 unwieldya1538 unruly1548 wieldlessa1560 hard1560 untoward1566 tickle1570 churlish1577 unwieldsome1579 rebellious1587 disobedient1588 unframeable1593 unwilling1593 untractable1601 unmanageable1606 intractable1607 surly1609 unwedgeablea1616 dogged1627 uncontrollable1648 obdurate1651 morose1652 uncompliant1659 sullen1678 unpliant1716 ungovernable1773 sulky1867 intractile1880 unwieldly1881 bunglesome1915 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [adjective] > unfavourable contrariousc1320 bada1325 contraryinga1340 adversea1393 frowarda1400 contrairc1400 fremd1423 adversant?a1425 sinister1432 perversea1450 undisposed1456 sinistral?a1475 contrary1477 favourless1509 unfriendlya1513 thwarting1530 wayward?1544 contrariant1548 disfavourable1561 cross1565 unindifferent1565 sinistrous1566 haggard1578 unkindly1579 backward1582 awkward1587 improsperous1598 thwart1610 unpropitious1613 averted1619 untoward1621 averse1623 impropitious1638 sinister1726 unfavourable1748 untowardly1756 unfavouring1835 a1400 Seuyn Sages (W.) 2622 The weder was cold & froward. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8104 Bi-halden vs inogh has þou Vr fraward scapp al ses þou hov. 1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems 103 By froward chaunce my hood was gone. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. ii. 149 Syryus, the frawart star. 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 1450 This delycate dasy, With frowarde frostis, alas was all to-fret. ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Diij, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Curacyon of frowarde and rebel vlceres. 1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. Argt. 120 To take his froward fortune and untoward luck with..patience. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 213 It has been my froward fate to have too much. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §270 During this month of froward weather. a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) v. 156 The froward chaos of futurity. 1880 R. Broughton Second Thoughts II. ii. vii. 31 The froward May month. †3. quasi-n. A froward person or thing. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > perverseness > person frowarda1529 haggard1576 pig-sconcea1640 wronghead1729 crooked stick1848 pig-head1874 thrawn stick1893 a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. C.iii Our language is so rusty So cankered and so full Of frowardes. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 266 b Through the cankerd peevishnes of wayward frowardes. †B. adv. Obsolete. 1. In a direction that leads away from the person or thing under consideration; = fromward adv. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > [adverb] > away from some thing or place awayeOE outeOE frowardOE offOE yondwardc1275 yonwarda1387 waywardsc1390 fromwarda1547 offward1582 fromwardsa1661 orf1845 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [adverb] awayeOE awaywardc1225 awaywardsc1275 froa1400 frowardc1426 froma1450 OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1127 Eall þæt þa beon dragen toward swa frett þa drane & dragað fraward. c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 67 Ȝif þou to þe cherche go, To-ward, fro-ward, or ellis cum fro. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxxvii. f. lxiiii He myghte goo, or Ryde, frowarde or sydewarde, but towarde the Chapell myght he in no wyse atteygne. a1554 J. Croke tr. Thirteen Psalms (1844) xiii. 34 Thy face allwey thus wolt thou let Be turned froward? 1611 Spenser's Faerie Queen (new ed.) vi. x. sig. Ff6^v And eke themselues so in their dance they bore, That two of them still froward seem'd to be, But one still towards shew'd her selfe afore. 2. figurative. Untowardly; perversely. froward shapen = misshapen (cf. fromshapen adj.). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective] > not shapely or deformed unshapelyc1200 forcrookedc1305 deform1382 froward shapena1400 misshapena1400 deformedc1400 misshape1440 deformablec1450 disformatea1492 misshapeda1500 deformate?a1505 fashionless1581 unfashionable1597 shapeless1598 ill-proportioned1602 disformed1665 untrained1871 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [adverb] > unfavourably illc1325 contrariouslyc1380 amissa1425 contrary1497 sinisterly1529 overthwart1556 thwartingly1579 froward1580 adversely1593 crossly1597 unpropitiously1602 cross1603 disfavourably1654 cloudily1792 unfavourably1833 askew1858 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8076 Sagh man neuer for-wit þat hore, Sua fraward scapen creature. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 125^v Thou knowest howe frowarde matters went, when thou tokest shippe. †C. prep. a. (In a direction) away from; = fromward prep. Also in form frowards. Obsolete (or archaic). ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > in the direction of [preposition] > away from offeOE fromwardsc1000 from offlOE frowardsc1175 fromward?c1225 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > in a direction away from (of motion) [preposition] frowardsc1175 fro‥wardc1220 fromward?c1225 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4672 Þa turrnesst tu þe frawarrd godd. & towarrd eorþlic ahhte. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3322 At euen cam a fugel-fligt, Fro-ward arabie to hem rigt. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ii. viii. 36 The angels slake neuer..nother tornyth theyr entent frowarde god. c1400 Melayne 1314 The Sowdane..sawe the Cristen in the felde Frowarde the Cite ride. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur x. xxx And euer sire Tristram tracyd and trauercyd and wente froward hym here and there. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 786 Frawart the south thaim thocht it best to draw. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. i. 57 Scho thame fordrivis, and causis oft ga will Frawart Latium. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid iv. Prol. 130 Thy self or thame thou frawartis God remouis. 1861 D. G. Rossetti tr. Dante Vita Nuova in Early Ital. Poets ii. 305 He only is a pilgrim who goeth towards or frowards the House of St. James. b. with tmesis fro..ward. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > in a direction away from (of motion) [preposition] frowardsc1175 fro‥wardc1220 fromward?c1225 c1220 Bestiary 719 And wende we neure fro him-ward. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † frowardv. Etymology: < froward adj. Obsolete. transitive. To make froward. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > make obstinate or stubborn [verb (transitive)] > make perverse imperverse1603 froward1628 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxxvi. sig. O7 Vexations, when they daily billow vpon the minde, they froward euen the sweetest Soule; and.., turne it into spleene and testinesse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021). > as lemmas fro..ward †7. Examples of from..ward, fro..ward. Obsolete.See also fromward prep. 1b. Π c1220 Bestiary 719 And wende we neure fro him-ward. c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 7281 Þe ded..Salle ay þan fle fra þam-ward. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 399 Ful many a draghte of wyn hadde he drawe Fro Burdeuxward whil þ^t the Chapman sleep. c1440 Alphabet of Tales 285 He mett his wife fro þe kurkward. 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 9 §2 Leasses..for the which noe such suertie shalbe hadde..[shall] stand from thensforth ward voide and of noon effecte. 1583 J. Dee Jrnl. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 56 His face is (now) from meward. 1607 T. Rogers Faith, Doctr., & Relig. 216 No man..can desire to appropriate..any thing to himselfe, either yet to make any priuate vse to himselfe from the rest ward. 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 108 Amphilanthus..was then looking from herward, carelesse of her. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 299 With the nail of his Right Hand Thumb, sloaping from his Thumbward, he draws or slides forward the upper Sheet. extracted from -wardsuffix < adj.adv.prep.OEv.1628 as lemmas
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frowardadj.adv.prep.

† frowardv.

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