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
Unless you had brought into the world some extraordinary refractoriness to the influence of evil, the process that you have undergone could not easily fail of being efficacious.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 by Various
He is willing to hope you to be all obedience, and would prevent all incitements to refractoriness.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson
I considered them, therefore, as beings influenced by the most deplorable obduracy and refractoriness of spirit.
From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
It is altogether a mistake," said Mrs. Heiberg, absorbed in counting her stitches, "altogether a mistake that genius is marked by restlessness, refractoriness, an irregular life, or the like.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
