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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wayward/ˈweɪwəd/

▶adjective self-willed and unpredictable.

– derivatives
waywardly adverb,
waywardness noun.

– origin ME: shortening of obs. awayward ‘turned away’.

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