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† ˈthwartness Now rare.
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The condition or quality of being thwart, in various senses; transverseness; opposition, contrariety; perversity.
1548–77Vicary Anat. ii. (1888) 20 The third [property is] in thwartnes, in whom the vertue that holdeth hath might. 1614Sir R. Dudley in Fortesc. Papers (Camden) 11 note, The thawartnes [sic]..of late the parlement useth towardes him. 1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. iv. ii. (1654) 303 Some unkinde usages, or thwartness of disposition. a1907F. Thompson Works (1913) III. 66 It is full of thwartness and eating and drinking, and selffulness. |