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overthwartness

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The state of being overthwart; perverseness.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, uncountable

Examples

  • c. 1624-1648 (written) 1764 (first published), Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury my younger sister , indeed , might have been married to a far greater fortune , had not the overthwartness of some neighbours interrupted it

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History

Etymology

From Middle English overþwartnes, overthwartnes; equivalent to overthwart + -ness.