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overthwartness en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English overþwartnes, overthwartnes; equivalent to overthwart + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) 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