Word Meanings - ENFROWARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make froward, perverse, or ungovernable. Sir E. Sandys.

Related words: (words related to ENFROWARD)

• UNGOVERNABLE
  Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
• PERVERSENESS
  The quality or state of being perverse. "Virtue hath some perverseness." Donne.
• FROWARD
  Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. A froward man soweth strife. Prov. xvi. 28. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. Bacon. Syn.
• PERVERSED
  Turned aside.
• PERVERSEDLY
  Perversely.
• PERVERSELY
  In a perverse manner.
• PERVERSE
  p.p. of pervertereto turn around, to overturn: cf. F. pervers. See 1. Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted. The only righteous in a word perverse. Milton. 2. Obstinate in the wrong;
• ENFROWARD
  To make froward, perverse, or ungovernable. Sir E. Sandys.