adv. [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, 1030.
| To eschewyn all excessys prudently, | |
| And specially al froward Outragious largesse, | |
| 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, trans. 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, Guardian’s Instruct., 71. Finding very fine Parts in the Rubbish of a great deal of Clownery, I once dealt with him very frowardly, and ask’d him plainly, how it came to pass that he was not a wiser man.
1845–6. Trench, Huls. Lect., Ser. II. vii. 263. He deals frowardly in the land of uprightness.
