recalcitrancy
- a word derived from recalcitrant.
Example Sentences
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Under this extreme recalcitrancy lies trouble of a kind that is manufactured only in Ireland.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he, bitter against the educational recalcitrancy of England, wanted to make a point against the "hard-dying social stigma which attaches to being in trade" in England.
From Time Magazine Archive
Commands succeeded admonitions, and as the only effect on the rowers was obvious recalcitrancy, oaths succeeded both: all in those throat- clearing tones to which the German language so consonantly lends itself.
From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Coke, Henry J. (Henry John)
We felt much inclined at first to denominate him a case of abulia, but his stubbornness in recalcitrancy led us to change our opinion.
From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by Healy, William
With supreme skill, she kept this sword of Damocles poised above the Bison's head, and more than once she was actually on the point of really dropping it— for his recalcitrancy grew and grew.
From Eminent Victorians by Strachey, Giles Lytton
