froward
/ˈfrəʊəd
/adjective archaic
(Of a person) difficult to deal with; contrary.The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate....
- This verse shows that the person that is froward in heart comes up with mischief and the person sows discord.
- Atli was the eldest son; a man yielding and soft-natured, easy, and meek withal, and all men liked him well: another son they had called Grettir; he was very froward in his childhood; of few words, and rough; worrying both in word and deed.
Derivatives
frowardly
- He who had been walking frowardly in the way of his heart might find healing by turning to the Lord.
- For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth and smote him, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
- For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
frowardness
- And yet I misdoubt me that thou wilt not bring this about, because of the frowardness of them that follow thee.
- Thou wilt bring eternal doom on all frowardness and transgression, and Thy righteousness will stand revealed in the sight of all Thou hast made.
- All this is of his craft and wiliness: wherefore do thou betake thyself to equity and fair dealing and leave frowardness and tyranny; and thou shalt fare all the better for it.
Origin
Late Old English frāward 'leading away from, away', based on Old Norse frá (see fro, from).