froward

adj

1. (archaic, literary)Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition.

   “The wayes of the frowarde are ſtraunge, but yͤ workes of him yͭ is cleane, are right.”

   “But in the meanwhile, for fear lest if he would wax never the better he would wax much the worse; and from gentle, smooth, sweet, and courteous, might wax angry, rough, froward, and sour, and thereupon be troublous and tedious to the world to make fair weather with; they give him fair words for the while and put him in good comfort, and let him for the rest take his own chance.”

   “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.”

   “All this is true, if Time ſtood ſtill; which contrariwiſe moueth ſo round, that a Froward Retention of Cuſtome, is as turbulent a Thing, as an Innouation: […]”

   “A froward child becomes an untoward youth, who turns a deaf ear to all the admonitions of an afflicted parent.”

prep

1. (obsolete)Away from.

   “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.”