morosity

"They who conversed with him knew him to have many humours which were very intolerable; they who were but little acquainted with him took him to be a man of much knowledge, and called his morosity gravity."

Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 Henry Craik 1886

I am sorry to hear that he grows every day more froward, and with such a kind of morosity, that doth either argue a great discontent in mind, or a distemper of humours in his body.

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

They embraced a sort of enthusiastic fatalism, a sort of ebullient morosity.

March 31st, 2009 m_francis 2009

I am, I confess, naturally inclined to that which misguided zeal terms superstition: my common conversation I do acknowledge austere, my behaviour full of rigour, sometimes not without morosity; yet, at my devotion I love to use the civility of my knee, my hat, and hand, with all those outward and sensible motions which may express or promote my invisible devotion.

Religio Medici 2007

Trunnion no sooner heard him mention the cause of her disorder, than his morosity recurring, he burst out into a violent fit of cursing, and forthwith betook himself again to his hammock, where he lay, uttering, in a low growling tone of voice, a repetition of oaths and imprecations, for the space of four-and-twenty hours, without ceasing.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

They did not care to improve their access, or increase their traffic; not through cold morosity, or even proud indifference, but because they had been so brought up, and so confirmed by circumstance.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

With this language many did begin to feel offended; it seemed to be morosity and ill-will, the pusillanimity of old age, or a fear, that had now become exaggerated, of the skill of Hannibal.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

But ultimately this is my space and I do what I like with it, and that includes as much morosity as I care to sling.

kinaesthesia Diary Entry kinaesthesia 2001

Raca denotes indeed morosity, and lightness of manners and life: but fool judgeth bitterly of the spiritual and eternal state, and decreeth a man to certain destruction.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Though in his nature he had not only a firme gravity, but a severity, and even some morosity

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various