Now rare. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The condition or quality of being thwart, in various senses; transverseness; opposition, contrariety; perversity.
1548–17. Vicary, Anat., ii. (1889), 20. The third [property is] in thwartnes, in whom the vertue that holdeth hath might.
1614. Sir R. Dudley, in Fortesc. Papers (Camden), 11, note. The thawartnes [sic] … of late the parlement useth towardes him.
1649. Bp. Hall, Cases Consc., IV. ii. (1654), 303. Some unkinde usages, or thwartness of disposition.
