waywardness
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These waywardnesses and follies may have their day, and prove after all to have been, in their way, wholesome discipline.
From Household Education by Martineau, Harriet
Our own weaknesses and waywardnesses, our strong senses, our passions, our desires, our necessities, all these have a counteracting force, which needs continual watchfulness in order to be neutralised.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander
Before it, indications, waywardnesses, the faults of a young and petted wife.
From Fenwick's Career by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
With all the overflowing amiability of his nature, there were mingled certain peculiarities or waywardnesses which were more suitable to the freedom of celibacy than to the staidness of matrimonial life.
From Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Translated into English Verse by Khayyam, Omar
But Morality is both rhyme and poetry; Progress is at least rhyme; and The Future, though rhymeless again, is the best of all Mr Arnold’s waywardnesses of this kind.
From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George
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