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Today's Word "Froward"

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froward \FRO-we(r)d\ (adjective) - Contrary, disobedient, obstinate, even perversely so.

"No one can be more guilty of frowardness than a beautiful, bright, and overindulged three-year-old."

 

Today's word is a plain Middle English addition to the language, no frills attached. "Fro" was borrowed from Old Norse "fra" during the Viking invasions of England and has remained only in Scots English meaning "from." The suffix -ward means "way, direction of" and shares a source with Latin "versus" and many Germanic words, such as "worth" (from a verb meaning "to become"), "wrist," "wring," and "wrath." The original root is taken to have meant "to turn." The English adverb "fromward" means literally "thence, in the direction from something."


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