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
That was practically the end of the discussion, and the Squire was left lamenting the frowardness of human nature.
From The Eldest Son by Marshall, Archibald
And he answered, Yea, for it is written, With the pure thou shalt be pure, and with the froward thou shalt learn frowardness.'
From Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 by Meinhold, Wilhelm
It is nothing but a little sally of anger, like the frowardness of peevish children, who, when they cannot get all they would have, are resolved to take nothing.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
The Place of Blood for the Price of Blood, And that was meet, I ween, For there they would bury the dead who died In frowardness and sin.
From Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse by Oxenham, John
