frowardly, adv.
(ˈfrəʊwədlɪ)
[f. froward a. + -ly2.]
In a froward manner; perversely; adversely. (Now chiefly arch. in Biblical phrases.)
| a 1300 Cursor M. 7317 (Gött.) ‘Mi folk’, said godd, ‘full frawarly [Trin. frowardly] þai seke and wirke full grett enuy. 14.. Lydg. Secrees 1032 Avaryce and gadering frowardly. 1435 Misyn Fire of Love i. v. 11, & luf of þe endeles lufar for fals luf frawardly þai haue lost. 1509 Hawes Past. Pleas. xiv. ii, Afrycus, Auster bloweth frowardly. 1526 Tindale 1 Cor. xiii. 4 Love doth not frowardly. 1588 A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 145 Quhilk glaidlie or frawartlie dois præsume to speik agains the halie decrees of the fathers. 1645 Milton Tetrach. Wks. (1847) 211 Finding the misbeliever not frowardly affected. 1688 S. Penton Guardians Instr. 71, I once dealt with him very Frowardly, and ask'd him plainly, How [etc.]. 1845–6 Trench Huls. Lect. Ser. ii. vii. 263 He deals frowardly in the land of uprightness. |