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Parthenia's shrewishness only hastens their marriage, in a sleepy village church.

From Time Magazine Archive

As time went on and developed the sweetness of Pete, the man grew more and more distasteful to her, and she broke into fits of shrewishness.

From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Caine, Hall, Sir

For in that she said she would cast away all her old shrewishness, therein I daresay she sported.

From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica

In the presence of one man, Tennyson, she laid aside her shrewishness: “talking with Alfred Tennyson lifts me out of the earth earthy; a visit to Farringford is like a retreat to the religious.”

From Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake by Tuckwell, William

No sooner is the marriage contract signed than Norina, acting upon her instructions, launches forth upon a career of unexampled shrewishness, extravagance, and flirtation.

From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by Fuller-Maitland, J. A.