| Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon. |
| But this untractableness may be carried too far, and may degenerate into obstinacy, perverseness, or disingenuity. |
| Such Delphic obscurity was not inspired by mere perverseness. |
| And then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit of perverseness. |
| For I do not doubt that, whatever kind of crime it may be to which they have confessed, their perverseness and their inflexible obstinacy should certainly be punished. |
| The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. |
