refractory
adjective
hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient.
refractoriness
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a word derived from
refractory.
Example Sentences
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Calvin and Farel resisted; their political enemies made a pretext of this refractoriness to exile them from Geneva, whence they were banished for some years.
From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Honor? de Balzac
Take from me, O Lord, her perverseness, her wilfulness, her refractoriness, and hear thy Spirit saying in my soul: Heal me, O Lord, for I would be healed.
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne
This was all he had to offer to the Father in expiation of his contumely and refractoriness, his errors and his falls.
From The Cathedral by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
They went of their own free will, tired out by the refractoriness of the people; and we are pretty well aware who urged and incited the underlings on to resist.
From Under a Charm, Vol. I (of III) A Novel by E. Werner
It cannot be doubted that a certain refractoriness to form is a typical feature of the Basque character.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
