1 gen 1648 anni - froward

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Of a person, perverse, difficult to deal with. Examples of the word’s colloquial use are found into the seventeenth century: <i>c</i>.1540 <i>ther furder forward, peruerse and myscheuus myndis</i>, Scarthingwell (YRS51/4); 1648 <i>Mitchell continues as froward as ever</i>, Thurlstone (SS65/89). It occurs as an early by-name: 1316 <i>William</i> <i>Fraward</i>, Sandal (YRS78/143); 1333 Henry <i>Frauward</i>, Sowerby (WCR3/134) and as a minor place-name: <i>Fraward House</i> survived in Almondbury into the late sixteenth century (ALPN60).

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