frowardness

frowardness
The quality of being froward

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  • Frowardness — Froward Fro ward, a. [Fro + ward. See {Fro}, and cf. {Fromward}.] Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. [1913 Webster] A froward man soweth strife. Prov. xvi.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • frowardness — noun see froward …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • frowardness — See frowardly. * * * …   Universalium

  • frowardness — n. willfulness, stubbornness, disobedience …   English contemporary dictionary

  • frowardness — fro·ward·ness …   English syllables

  • frowardness — noun ( es) : the quality or state of being froward …   Useful english dictionary

  • Curstness — Curst ness (k[^u]rst n[e^]s), n. Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness. [Obs.] Shak. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • froward — adjective Etymology: Middle English, turned away, froward, from fro from + ward ward Date: 13th century 1. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition 2. archaic adverse • frowardly adverb • frowardness noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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  • Carolyn Merchant — (born 1936 in Rochester, New York) is an American ecofeminist philosopher and historian of science most famous for her theory on the Death of Nature , whereby she identifies the Enlightenment as the period when science began to atomise, objectify …   Wikipedia

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