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# froward

«froward» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **stubborn** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

stubborn

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

stubborn, awkward, and refusing to do what is right or wanted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/froward/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say stubborn or naughty.

### examples

- And He said: 'I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faithfulness. (Torah DEU.32.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/froward/#x1)
- "Enough! woman," he cried at last; "put a check upon thy froward tongue! (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/froward/#x2)

### primary record

stubborn

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 2 (Torah 1, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men that speak froward things;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.45/)
- [Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.114/)
- [A base person, a man of iniquity, is he that walketh with a froward mouth;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.153/)
- [The mouth of the righteous buddeth with wisdom; but the froward tongue shall be cut off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.289/)
- [A froward man soweth strife; and a whisperer separateth familiar friends.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.471/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «froward» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/froward/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.