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Perverseness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being perverse; doggedness, obstinacy. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    deliberately deviating from what is good wordnet
  3. 3
    deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline wordnet

Etymology

From perverse + -ness.

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