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froward

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
froward /ˈfrəʊəd/

▶adjective archaic (of a person) difficult to deal with; contrary.

– derivatives
frowardly adverb,
frowardness noun.

– origin OE frāward ‘leading away from, away’, based on ON frá (see fro, from).

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