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froward

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈfɹəʊ.(w)əd/Part of speech adjectiveSorted adforrwStarts with FEnds with D0 clues
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Definitions

  1. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

Word origin

From Middle English froward, fraward, equivalent to fro + -ward. Compare Old English fromweard, framweard (“turned away, having the back turned”).

Used in a sentence

  • The wayes of the frowarde are ſtraunge, but yͤ workes of him yͭ is cleane, are right.
  • Her onely fault, and that is faults enough, Is, that ſhe is intollerable curſt, And ſhrow’d, and froward, ſo beyond all meaſure, That were my ſtate farre worſer then it is, I would not wed her for a mine of Gold.
  • All this is true, if Time ſtood ſtill; which contrariwiſe moueth ſo round, that a Froward Retention of Cuſtome, is as turbulent a Thing, as an Innouation: […]

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