noun. Perversity; peevishness; asperity; moroseness; bitterness; sourness; harshness of temper or character.

noun. Difficulty; perplexity; unintelligibility.

noun. The state or quality of being crabbed.

noun. a disposition to be ill-tempered

"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"

ill nature  

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