untowardness
Example Sentences
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But that is his goodness ever ready to do, unless there be hindrance through the untowardness of our own froward will.
From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica
His hating him was the untowardness for which Strether had been best prepared; he hadn't expected the boy's actual form to give him more to do than his imputed.
From The Ambassadors by James, Henry
I would that had been sent that would mend thy untowardness and bring thy temper to a comelier mould.
From Mistress Penwick by Payne, Dutton
That life is care and trouble and untowardness?
From Ladies-In-Waiting by Curtiss, Christine Tucke
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 Yonge, Charles Duke
