overthwartness
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English overþwartnes, overthwartnes; equivalent to overthwart + -ness.
Noun edit
overthwartness (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The state of being overthwart; perverseness.
- c. 1624-1648 (written) 1764 (first published), Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury
- my younger sister , indeed , might have been married to a far greater fortune , had not the overthwartness of some neighbours interrupted it
- c. 1624-1648 (written) 1764 (first published), Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury
References edit
“overthwartness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.