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  1. waywardnessnoun

    the quality of being wayward

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Waywardnessnoun

    Frowardness; perverseness.

    Etymology: from wayward.

    Such the behaviour of ladies, as builded their chastity not upon waywardness, but choice of worthiness. Philip Sidney.

    The best of his time hath been but rash; then must we look from his age to receive not alone the imperfections of long engrafted condition; but the unruly waywardness that infirm and cholerick years bring. William Shakespeare.

    A child will have as much wit as he hath waywardness. Henry Wotton, on Education.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of waywardness in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of waywardness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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