Definition of "froward" in English

adjective

1. (archaic, literary) Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition.

   • But in the meanwhile, for fear lest if he would wax never the better he would wax much the worse; and from gentle, smooth, sweet, and courteous, might wax angry, rough, froward, and sour, and thereupon be troublous and tedious to the world to make fair weather with; they give him fair words for the while and put him in good comfort, and let him for the rest take his own chance.

preposition

1. (obsolete) Away from.