untowardness
Example Sentences
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She allowed not her thoughts to go astray, striving continually for a pure and meek heart, begging forgiveness for her untowardness toward her husband.
From Mistress Penwick by Dutton Payne
The existing administration "had, in fact, by an unaccountable obstinacy and untowardness of circumstances, been deprived of all opportunity" of showing its capacity or its intentions.
From The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge
So was it—would at least have been But through untowardness of fate; For polity was then too strong: He came an age too late.
From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by John Campbell Shairp
It was probably that untowardness in his outward appearance, which never afterwards left him, that made his schoolfellows consider him a dull boy, fit only to be the butt of their ridicule.
From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Henry Francis Cary
With large open hearts, the untowardness of things present, the miseries of the past, the mischief, stupidity, and error which reign in the world, at times almost crush your melancholy men.
From Friends in Council — First Series by Sir Arthur Helps
