perverseness

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In a spring of light is the source of Truth, And in a fountain of darkness is the generation of Perverseness.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is his Manner; and the same Perverseness runs through all his Actions, according as the Circumstances vary.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Perverseness and crookedness is obstinacy and incorrigibleness against mercies and judgments,—“that that which is crooked cannot be made straight,” saith Solomon.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Perverseness is really moral strabismus, and I am shocked to think what a multitude of squint-eyed souls there will be, when we come to look into one another's faces in the "undress of immortality."

From Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays by Titcomb, Timothy

Perverseness prompted Theodora to say, 'The baby at the lodge is twice the size.'

From Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife by Yonge, Charlotte Mary