The wayes of the frowarde are ſtraunge, but yͤ workes of him yͭ is cleane, are right.
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Froward
//ˈfɹoʊ.ɚd//
Synonyms for "froward" (43 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (21)
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3 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
24 translations across 9 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- вироглав adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
- опак adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
Danish
1 entries- egenrådig adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
French
4 entries- déraisonnable adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
- désobéissant adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
- immaîtrisable adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
- inmaîtrisable adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
German
2 entries- eigensinnig adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
- trotzig adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- egenrådig adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
- trassig adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
- ulydig adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
- ustyrlig adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
Old English
1 entries- ranc adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
Polish
1 entries- krnąbrny adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
Romanian
4 entries- greu de mulțumit adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
- neascultător adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
- nestăpânit adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
- refractar adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
Turkish
4 entries- dik başlı adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
- inatçı adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
- serkeş adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
- âsî adj (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
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.
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Her onely fault, and that is faults enough, Is, that ſhe is intollerable curſt, And ſhrow’d, and froward, ſo beyond all meaſure, That were my ſtate farre worſer then it is, I would not wed her for a mine of Gold.
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All this is true, if Time ſtood ſtill; which contrariwiſe moueth ſo round, that a Froward Retention of Cuſtome, is as turbulent a Thing, as an Innouation: […]
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