froward

froward englannista suomeksi

1. uppiniskainen

froward englanniksi

1. Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition.

2. (RQ:Coverdale Bible)

3. 1553 (posth.), (w), ''A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation'', Book I, Chapter 14:

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.

4. (RQ:Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew)

5. (RQ:Bacon Essayes)

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7. (RQ:Scott Redgauntlet) began to suffer in the body as well as the mind. He had formed the determination of setting out in person for Dumfriesshire, when, after having been dogged, peevish, and snappish to his clerks and domestics, to an unusual and almost intolerable degree, the acrimonious humours settled in a hissing-hot fit of the gout, which is a well-known tamer of the most froward spirits, (..)

8. (RQ:R. F. Burton Arabian Nights)

9. 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Two Towers":

'I owe much to Eomer,' said Theoden. 'Faithful heart may have froward tongue.'

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11. Away from.

12. (RQ:Malory Le Morte Darthur)