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Date: 1300-1400
Origin: awayward 'turned away' (13-16 centuries), from away + -ward

wayward

 adjective
     
way‧ward
behaving badly, in a way that is difficult to control:
a wayward teenager
—waywardness noun [uncountable]
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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