frowardness
- a word derived from froward.
Example Sentences
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There was a frowardness about it, a loud insurgency, which made it seem a thousandfold its size.
From Time Magazine Archive
By handing him over to the custody of the Moors, he was safely rid of a troublesome servant, whose frowardness in future he must have tolerated as the reward of secrecy.
From Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. by Trueba y Cosío, Joaquín Telesforo de
Lord Rosebery's Administration was sterilized partly by his own unfamiliarity with Liberal sentiment, and partly by the frowardness of his colleagues.
From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by Russell, George William Erskine
More than once I have been obliged to save him from a difficulty into which the frowardness of his heroism had brought him!
From A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Dahn, Felix
"And with all my soul I hope the Frenchmen be sober men, for to fail of our purpose now through any frowardness would break Master Drake his noble heart and send me into a decline."
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert
