n. Perversity; peevishness; asperity; moroseness; bitterness; sourness; harshness of temper or character.
n. Difficulty; perplexity; unintelligibility.
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n. a disposition to be ill-tempered
Word Usage
"If such voluntary tasks, pleasure and delight, or crabbedness of these studies, will not yet divert their idle thoughts, and alienate their imaginations, they must be compelled, saith Christophorus a"