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Example sentences for "waywardness"

Lexicographically close words:
wayt; wayte; wayted; wayting; wayward; wayworn; wazeer; weah; weak
  1. Have pity upon thyself and upon the servants of God and be not the cause of waywardness like unto the people aforetime.

  2. Verily I say: The greater the decline of religion, the more grievous the waywardness of the ungodly.

  3. Say: ‘While ye lay in the graves of waywardness and error.

  4. Spite of waywardness thou'lt find Here and there a note of pain.

  5. Spite of waywardness thou'lt find Here and there a note of pain;-- To thy well-proved mildness now Do I recommend my song!

  6. I much fear, Senora, that the best conclusions are not to be depended on in an affair that touches the waywardness of the feelings.

  7. The scene has often been described as a proof of the waywardness and inconstancy of human judgments; the being who had so lately been scowled on as a reckless and selfish adventurer, being now regarded as little less than a God.

  8. Fox was distrusted by many people for his gross vices, and because of his waywardness in politics.

  9. That uncle had always loved his nephew, and in some measure considered himself responsible for the waywardness of his seafaring propensities; and he took him to his home, and treated him in every respect as a lost son restored.

  10. Margaret had a sweet temper, and really loved her uncle and the children, or she could not have endured so long as she did the waywardness of this purse-proud woman.

  11. The Almighty had taken her waywardness in hand.

  12. The readers of Mrs. Gaskell's biography know that the incumbent of Haworth was an eccentric man, but the full measure of his eccentricity and waywardness has never yet been revealed to the world.

  13. He yielded, or seemed to yield, to the hot hastiness of Wilks, and lent himself to the captious waywardness of Dogget.

  14. Here, again, his waywardness ruined him for a professor.

  15. He had been a tall, bold, reckless-looking youth then, with a certain wild waywardness in his manner that might have destroyed him, had he yielded to it.

  16. The waywardness had gone--ironlike resolution marked his manner.

  17. The waywardness of the most wilful child is determined by some cause near at hand; and those who love children, and can read their thoughts, will not in general be long in discovering their motives and seeing through their conduct.

  18. Remorse would then supervene--remorse for the pain and anguish I had occasioned my fond and worthy parents, and for the misery my waywardness had brought upon myself.

  19. For to adventure is the lust of Youth; and to leave Safety is the natural waywardness of the spirit; and who shall reprove or regret; for it were sorrowful that this Spirit of Man should cease.

  20. Yet, this to be the truth, as I know it; and surely to be the natural waywardness of love.

  21. Many parents are very much distressed by the waywardness of their children; but this waywardness is often more imaginary than real.

  22. It is better to see but little of me, and think the better, than grow weary of my waywardness on nearer acquaintance.

  23. In our very waywardness there was a mock semblance of power, for the creatures we presented to you were our own, their lives and fortunes in our hands.

  24. Julia's temper, which had never been good, grew gradually worse; and it required all a mother's forbearance to endure her continual waywardness and caprice.

  25. Father, praying, My waywardness and straying From Thee, my evil doing, Into the ocean throwing, Forgive eternally.

  26. Melanchthon, with his praiseworthy concern for discipline and ordered doctrine, was naturally filled with deep misgivings when the preaching of the Evangel resulted in moral disorder and waywardness in views and doctrine.

  27. I'll try to balk Its waywardness and be more altruistic.

  28. Moved by some waywardness of will, Three paces from the path apart She stepped and stood--my prescient heart Was stricken with a passing chill.

  29. If he gave an opinion it was clear and sound enough; of course with the old Ruskinian waywardness of idea which always puzzled his public.

  30. But the most whimsical caprice of Cupid is one that I should be almost afraid to mention, did I not know that I was writing for readers well experienced in the waywardness of this most mischievous deity.

  31. Still his mother was not to be wearied out of her affection, by all the waywardness of her boy; nor disheartened by the stories of his misdeeds, with which her good friends were continually regaling her.

  32. Mary, on her part, had always shown herself more grieved by Darnley's waywardness than angry at it.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waywardness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    backsliding; carnality; cussedness; delinquency; eccentricity; evil; immorality; impulsiveness; impurity; inconsistency; inconstancy; infraction; infringement; instability; insubordination; irascibility; irregularity; lawbreaking; lawlessness; laxity; lightness; looseness; moodiness; nonconformity; perversity; prodigality; promiscuity; recidivism; restlessness; stuffiness; swinging; transgression; uncertainty; unchastity; ungodliness; unreliability; variability; variation; variety; violation; wrongdoing