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Definition of Frowardness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frowardness
Literary usage of Frowardness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"frowardness and perversity lie in the will : a ... Crossness and frowardness are
peculiar to children; indiscriminate indulgence of the rising will ..."
2. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham by Lucy Apsley Hutchinson, Julius Hutchinson, Charles Harding Firth (1885)
"... more calm and came and desired five barrels, which the governor having more
respect unto the public good than to their frowardness allowed to them, ..."
3. The biblical museum by James Comper Gray (1871)
"Let them also carefully avoid those sins for which the bearers of the names stand
branded to posterity. Let every Jonah beware of frowardness ; Thomas, ..."
4. The Book of common prayer (1818)
"... in his frowardness and malice ; the Minister in that case ought to admit the
former evil life, that the Congregation may thereby be satisfied; ..."
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