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English Dictionary: waywardness by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wayward \Way"ward\, a. [OE. weiward, for aweiward, i. e., turned
      away. See {Away}, and {-ward}.]
      Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse;
      willful.
  
               My wife is in a wayward mood.                  --Shak.
  
               Wayward beauty doth not fancy move.         --Fairfax.
  
               Wilt thou forgive the wayward thought?   --Keble.
      -- {Way"ward*ly}, adv. -- {Way"ward*ness}, n.
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