Sc. [f. prec. + -NESS.] Frowardness, perversity, ‘thrawnness.’
1567. Reg. Privy Council Scot., I. 515. Hir Hienes clemency is commounlie abusit and recompansit with threwartnes and ingratitude.
a. 1600. Scot. Poems 16th C. (1801), I. 70. Remoue from mee all thrawardnesse, Als well in mynde, as into deid.
1609. Skene, Reg. Maj., Stat. Will., 4 b. Gif he quha leides bot ane beast … be thrawertnes, passes throw them, quha drives the many horse.
a. 1651. Calderwood, Hist. Kirk (1843), II. 538. A pitifull caus,… and yitt led by the thrawardnesse of time and our unhappe.
