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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Froward \Fro"ward\, a. [Fro + -ward. See {Fro}, and cf
{Fromward}.]
Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is
reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as a froward
child.
A froward man soweth strife. --Prov. xvi.
28.
A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing
as innovation. --Bacon.
Syn: Untoward; wayward; unyielding; ungovernable: refractory;
obstinate; petulant; cross; peevish. See {Perverse}. --
{Fro"ward*ly}, adv -- {Fro"ward*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
froward
adj : habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition [syn: {headstrong},
{self-willed}, {willful}, {wilful}]
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