Both Uses of
perverse
in
Sense and Sensibility
- Are those who have been disappointed in their first choice, whether from the inconstancy of its object, or the perverseness of circumstances, to be equally indifferent during the rest of their lives?†
Chpt 11 *
- But this, from the momentary perverseness of impatient suffering, she at first refused to do.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
not what is expected, or considered proper
or: having the opposite effect of what is desired
or: having the opposite effect of what is desired