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Webster 1828 Edition

Noun.

A cross or snappish temper.

fractiousness ‎(uncountable)

The quality of being fractious; trouble-making; unruliness.
- 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “chapter I”, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, OCLC 884653065:
  
  His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.
A peevish or cranky nature.