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English
Etymology
From perverse + -ness.
Pronunciation
Noun
perverseness (countable and uncountable, plural perversenesses)
- The quality of being perverse; doggedness, obstinacy.
1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Isaiah 30:12–13, column 1:Wherefore, thus ſaith the holy one of Iſrael, Becauſe ye deſpise this word, and truſt in oppreſſion and peruerſeneſſe, and ſtay thereon: Therefore this iniquitie ſhalbe to you as a breach ready to fall, ſwelling out in a high wall, whoſe breaking commeth ſuddenly at an inſtant.