frowardlyadv.
/ˈfrəʊ(w)ədli/, U.S. /ˈfroʊ(w)ərdli/ In a froward manner; perversely; adversely. (Now chiefly archaic in Biblical phrases.)
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the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adverb] > perversely
witherc1200
contrariouslyc1380
waywardly1395
frowardlya1400
overthwartlya1425
wrawlyc1440
protervely1447
perverselya1513
thrawnlya1522
perversedlya1525
thrawartly1533
thwartly1558
backwardlya1586
unreclaimablya1616
peevishlya1680
untowardly1682
bloody-mindedly1716
wrong-headedly1737
thrawart-like1768
cross-grained1825
pigheadedly1836
cussedly1868
contrariwise1873
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 7317 ‘Mi folk’, said godd, ‘full frawarly [Trin. Cambr. frowardly] þai seke and wirke ful grett enuy.
14.. J. Lydgate Secrees 1032 Avaryce and gadering frowardly.
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 11 & luf of þe endeles lufar for fals luf frawardly þai haue lost.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xiv. ii Afrycus, Auster bloweth frowardly.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. xiii. 4 Love doth not frowardly.
1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 145 Quhilk glaidlie or frawartlie dois præsume to speik agains the halie decrees of the fathers.
1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 76 Finding the misbeleever not frowardly affected.
1688 S. Penton Guardian's Instr. 71 I once dealt with him very Frowardly, and ask'd him plainly, How [etc.].
1846 R. C. Trench Christ Desire of All Nations vii. 145 He deals frowardly in the land of uprightness.
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