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Froward vs Perverse - What's the difference?

froward | perverse |

As adjectives the difference between froward and perverse

is that froward is disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition while perverse is turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the (morally) right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.

As a preposition froward

is away from.

froward

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic) Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition.
  • * 1592, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew :
    • 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.
  • * 1826 , George Crabb
    • A froward child becomes an untoward youth, who turns a deaf ear to all the admonitions of an afflicted parent.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2007 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Peter Marshall , title=Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Oxford Univ. Press , isbn=9780199273713 , page= , passage=… which so incensed this old hag that she grew as froward and sullen as the doctor, … }}
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date= , year=c2009 , first= , last= , author=Mary Sidney , authorlink= , title=Froward Women , site=Mary Sidney citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-08-31 , passage=However, it does make one wonder — if William Shakespeare were the creator of all these froward , literate, and often powerful women, why did he let his own daughters grow up illiterate? }}
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date=2012-06-09 , year= , first= , last= , author=Christine , authorlink= , title=Forward or Froward , site=Talk Wisdom citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-08-31 , passage=… the Communist/Marxist/Progressive/Globalist meaning of the term "Forward" can more accurately be labeled as Froward'. … campaign slogan choice would better resemble the term "' Froward " rather than the term "Forward." }}

    Synonyms

    * untoward

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (label) Away from.
  • *, Bk.XIII, Ch.xvij:
  • *:Whan Sir Galahad herde hir sey so, he was adrad to be knowyn; and therewith he smote hys horse with his sporys and rode a grete pace froward them.

    • Anagrams

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    perverse

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the (morally) right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.
  • Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.
  • (legal, of a verdict) Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.

    • Derived terms

    * perversely * perverseness * perversity

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