froward
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froward (comparative more froward, superlative most froward)
- Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition.
- 1592, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew:
- 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.
- 1592, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew:
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froward
- (obsolete) Away from.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XIII:
- Whan Sir Galahad herde hir sey so, he was adrad to be knowyn; and therewith he smote hys horse with his sporys and rode a grete pace froward them.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XIII:
