indocile
adjective
not willing to receive teaching, training, or discipline; fractious; unruly.
indocility
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a word derived from
indocile.
Example Sentences
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The very suspicion of partiality to character, fortune, or rank, would frustrate the effect of the rewards bestowed, and provoke indocility, jealousy, and disgust, in those who received none.
From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by R. C. (Robert Charles) Dallas
Quetzalcoatl next appears as a religious reformer, but is not listened to by men, whose indocility is punished by the appalling hurricane during which such as escaped became monkeys.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various
Hence a certain indocility and rigidness of mind which they only escape who live out of the fashion or have strength to lead it or to live above it.
From The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) by George Tyrrell
If I still persevere in my old opinions, it is no small comfort to me that it is not with regard to doctrines properly yours that I discover my indocility.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
I am not supposing any indocility, or unwillingness to listen.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
