frowardness
41churlishness — n 1. rusticity, ruralism, agrarianism; pastoralism, pastorality, bucolicism; inurbanity, back woodsiness, provincialism, provinciality, yokelism, Sl. hickishness; hominess, homeliness, homishness, Inf. folksiness. 2. boorishness, loutishness,… …
42contumacy — n 1. perverseness, perversity, perversion, contrariety, frowardness, refractoriness, wrong headedness; obstinacy, stubbornness, mulishness, pig headedness, bullheadedness; willfulness, intractableness, doggedness, obduracy; intransigence,… …
43insubordination — n 1. defiance, defiantness, rebelliousness, mutinousness, insurrectionalism, revolu tionariness, seditiousness, insurgence, riotousness. 2. rebellion, insurrection, mutiny, revolt, uprising, revolution, sedition, insurgency; riot, disorder,… …
44intractability — n 1. intractableness, indocility, unsubmissiveness, insubmission, incompliance, incompli ancy, uncooperativeness, nonconformity; stubbornness, obstinateness, obstinacy, pervicaciousness, pig head edness, mulishness, obdurateness, hard headedness …
45obstinacy — n 1. inflexibility, immovability, stiff neckedness, Inf. hardcoreness; inexorableness, implacability, intransigence, intractability, unyieldingness; unmalleability, unpersuadability, uninfluenceability, unswayability, unpliability. 2.… …
46perversity — n 1. contrariness, contradictoriness, contradictiousness, Archaic. contrariousness, contrariety, contumaciousness, contumacity, contumacy, frowardness, seditiousness, refractoriness, querulousness; waywardness, disobedience, intransigence,… …
47presumption — n 1. assumption, presupposition, predisposition, posit, postulate; belief, conviction, confidence, bias, feeling, gut feeling; expectation, anticipation, hope, trust; inference, deduction, theory, hypothesis, thesis; thought, view, attitude,… …
48froward — /ˈfroʊəd/ (say frohuhd) adjective perverse; wilfully contrary; refractory; not easily managed. {Middle English. See fro, ward} –frowardly, adverb –frowardness, noun …
49justices of laborers — In old English law, justices appointed to redress the frowardness of laboring men, who would either be idle or have unreasonable wages …
50justices of laborers — In old English law, justices appointed to redress the frowardness of laboring men, who would either be idle or have unreasonable wages …
