untowardlinessn.
(un- prefix1 6. Cf. untowardly adj.)
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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
1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man v. 427 The fathers felicitie is diminished by the childrens vntowardlinesse.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxv. 86 Who..could..winke-at..my vntowardlinesse, and such other faults that were in mee.
1707 in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1872) X. 235 The more privileges the more presumption and untowardliness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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