frowardness
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Noun[edit]
frowardness (usually uncountable, plural frowardnesses)
- The quality of being froward.
- 1902, William James, “Lectures 4 & 5”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience […] [1], London: Longmans, Green & Co.:
- [W]hereas Christian theology has always considered frowardness to be the essential vice of this part of human nature, the mind-curers say that the mark of the beast in it is fear; and this is what gives such an entirely new religious turn to their persuasion.