But in the meanwhile, for fear lest if he would wax never the better he would wax much the worse; and from gentle, smooth, sweet, and courteous, might wax angry, rough, froward, and sour, and thereupon be troublous and tedious to the world to make fair weather with; they give him fair words for the while and put him in good comfort, and let him for the rest take his own chance.

A froward child becomes an untoward youth, who turns a deaf ear to all the admonitions of an afflicted parent.

'I owe much to Eomer,' said Theoden. 'Faithful heart may have froward tongue.'

… which so incensed this old hag that she grew as froward and sullen as the doctor, …

Froward

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