Both Uses
perverse
in
Romeo and Juliet
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- O gentle Romeo,
If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully:
Or if thou thinkest I am too quickly won,
I'll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay,
So thou wilt woo: but else, not for the world.†p. 74.4 * - O gentle Romeo,
If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully:
Or if thou thinkest I am too quickly won,
I'll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay,
So thou wilt woo: but else, not for the world.†p. 75.9 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(perverse) not what is expected, or considered proper
or: having the opposite effect of what is desired - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)