wrongheadedness

[Eng. wrongheaded; -ne .] The quality or state of being wrongheaded; perversene , perversity, obstinacy. "Fidelity to opinions and to friends seems to him mere dullne and wrongheadedne ." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. ii. Gay: Beggar's Opera, ii. 3. *(2) In error, erroneously, mistakably. "Construe Ca io's smiles quite in the wrong." Shakesp.: Othello, iv. 1. *2. To have wrong: To suffer injustice. "Cæsar has had great wrong." wrong-doer, s. Shakesp. Julius Cæsar, iii. 2. 1. Ord. Lang.: One who injures another or who does wrong. "She resolved to spend all her years in bewailing the wrong, and yet praying for the wrong - doer ." Sulney. 2. Law : One who commits a tort or trespa ; a tort-feaser. *wrong-le , a. [Eng. wrong, s.; -le .] Void of or free from wrong. *wrong-le -lỹ, adv . [English wrong le ; -ly.] Without wrong or harm to anyone. "He was brother to the fair Helen queen of Corinth, and dearly esteemed of her for his exceeding good parts, being honorably courteous, and wrong les sly valiant."Sidney: Arcadia , bk. i. wrong-lỹ, adv . [English wrong , a.; -ly .] In a wrong manner; unjustly, wrongfully, erroneously. "They [madmen] do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning; but having joined together some ideas very wrongly , they mistake them for truths."Locke: Hum. Understand., bk. ii., ch. xi. father; we, wět, here, camel, her, there ; pine , pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, põt, wrong minded