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

Hajw—Satires on the hypocrisy of the �unco' guid,� the impiety of the pious, the ignorance of the learned, and the untowardness of his own generation.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar

It would require much patient continuance in well doing in those who attempted it, and they must be prepared, perhaps, to meet with some untowardness and much disappointment.” 

From Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement by Smith, George

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 Shairp, John Campbell

It also flows from a fearful, cowardly spirit; there is nothing of greatness in it, except it be greatness of untowardness.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John