froward
adjective
No English definition recorded for this entry.
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Pronunciation: /ˈfɹəʊ.(w)əd/ / /ˈfɹoʊ.ɚd/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English froward, fraward, equivalent to fro + -ward. Compare Old English fromweard, framweard (“turned away, having the back turned”).
- Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition.
“The wayes of the frowarde are ſtraunge, but yͤ workes of him yͭ is cleane, are right.”
“But in the meanwhile, for fear lest if he would wax never the better he would wax much the worse; and from gentle, smooth, sweet, and courteous, might wax angry, rough, froward, and sour, and thereupon be troublous and tedious to the world to make fair weather with; they give him fair words for the while and put him in good comfort, and let him for the rest take his own chance.”
prep
Etymology: From Middle English froward, fraward, equivalent to fro + -ward. Compare Old English fromweard, framweard (“turned away, having the back turned”).
- Away from.
“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.”