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Untoward(e)nes, n. [e.m.E. vntowardnesse (1481); Towartnes n.] Disinclination, unwillingness. — 1567 Facs. Nat. MSS III lv.
Thai … fand in hir maiestie sic vntowardnes and repugnance thairto c1590 Fowler II 21/28.
Satan … swa enragit & enflamit his seruantis against the members of Christ, that nather thair vntowardenes can be assuagit by the feare of Gods punishments, nor [etc.] 1640 Elgin Rec. II 431.
Imputed to the present troublsome tymes and the untowardnes and insolencie of youthe 1665 Lauderdale P. I 208.
The people in many parishes are much taken off from their untowardnes & withdraweings from ther ministers
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