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- noun Plural form of
perverseness .
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Examples
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I had let him know some of your perversenesses to LordG.
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Harry, when they allow of our superiority, by ex-pecting us to bear with their pretty perversenesses?
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I had let him know some of your perversenesses to Lord G----.
The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) Samuel Richardson 1725
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Sir Harry, when they allow of our superiority, by expecting us to bear with their pretty perversenesses?
The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) Samuel Richardson 1725
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Jack, if I obtain not admission to her presence on my return; but am refused with haughtiness; if her week be insisted upon (such prospects before her); I shall be confirmed in my conjecture; and it will be plain to me, that weak at best was that love, which could give place to punctilio, at a time when that all-reconciling ceremony, as she must think, waits her command: — then will I recollect all her perversenesses; then will I re-peruse Miss
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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