perverseness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From perverse +‎ -ness.

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Noun[edit]

perverseness (countable and uncountable, plural perversenesses)

  1. The quality of being perverse; doggedness, obstinacy.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 30:12–13, column 1:
      Wherefore, thus ſaith the holy one of Iſrael, Becauſe ye deſpise this word, and truſt in oppreſſion and peruerſeneſſe, and ſtay thereon: Therefore this iniquitie ſhalbe to you as a breach ready to fall, ſwelling out in a high wall, whoſe breaking commeth ſuddenly at an inſtant.
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