† thwartnessn.
Now rare.
The condition or quality of being thwart, in various senses; transverseness; opposition, contrariety; perversity.
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the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > [noun]
thwartingc1440
thwartness1577
transversality1850
transverseness1867
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun]
contrariositya1340
adversitya1382
champertyc1386
contrariousness1398
thwartingc1430
contrariancec1450
contrariness?1530
withsitting1532
oppugning1535
opposition1548
oppugnation1563
thwartness1577
adverseness1580
crossing1580
breasting1594
antipathy1601
oppugnancy1609
affrontment1611
opposure1611
thortera1614
contrariancya1617
obstancy1616
oppositeness1619
contropposition1621
obstrigillation1623
opposing1624
hostility1632
opposal1638
crossness1641
affront1642
aversion1651
oppugnance1657
shock1664
opponency1727
counteraction1750
antagonism1797
throwing1816
oppositiveness1824
kick1839
variance1842
opposedness1853
againstness1909
hornet1921
adversariness1970
oppositionality1989
the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > perverseness
frowardnessa1300
waywardnessc1384
wrawnessc1386
frowardship14..
perversity?a1425
frowardheadc1470
overthwartnessc1475
adversity1489
perversednessa1500
thrawnness1499
untowardnessa1525
protervitya1527
repugnancy1557
thrawardness1567
contrariousness1571
crookedness1576
thwartness1577
pervertness1581
peevishness1582
awkness1587
crabbedness1598
untowardliness1598
crossness1600
difficileness1612
contrariness1642
perverseness1644
cross-grainedness1652
wrong-headedness1740
pigheadedness1801
cussedness1852
orneriness1880
bloody-mindedness1910
difficultness1934
1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. B.iii The third [property is] in thwartnes, in whom the vertue that holdeth hath might.
1614 Sir R. Dudley in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 11 (note) The thawartnes [sic]..of late the parlement useth towardes him.
1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions iv. ii. 397 Some unkind usages, or thwartnesse of disposition.
a1907 F. Thompson Fourth Order Humanity in Wks. (1913) III. 66 It is full of thwartness and eating and drinking, and selffulness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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n.1577- to be on the sure side
- to be on the sure side of the hedge
- to be on the tenter(s
- to be on the tenterhooks
- to be on the top ropes
- to be on the warpath
- to be on the weigh-scales
- to be on the weighscales
- to be on the wrong side of a person
- to be on the —— side
- to be on thorns
- to be on thorns a thorn
- to be on to
- to be on to something
- to be on trial
- to be on trial for one's life
- to be on wires
- to be one mass of
- to be one reckoning
- to be one's bag
- to be one's bit
- to be one's brother's keeper
- to be one's craftmaster
- to be one's craftsmaster
- to be one's merry way