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

And then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit of Perverseness.

From Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales by Van Vechten, Carl

Perverseness is a sign of weakness—nay, an element of weakness— in man or woman.

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