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Obstinate opposition
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recalcitrance
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Word definitions for recalcitrance in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state of being recalcitrant.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1845, from French récalcitrance or from recalcitrant + -ance .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the trait of being unmanageable [syn: refractoriness , unmanageableness , recalcitrancy ]
Usage examples of recalcitrance.
It was not the sort of talk that a newly appointed maid of honour found at all entertaining, but Zeralenn brooked no recalcitrance, and Eliste found herself trapped, banished to the study for hours on end with no companion but the Count vo Bourray's ossified old Mirror of Courtiers.
There had been twelve of them living in the weeping basements below Lefortovo, to be brought up on demand to confront the question masters from the First and Second Chief Directorates, or taken back to Grishin’s special room in the event of recalcitrance or loss of memory.
But the political disunions of Europe, the political convulsions against monarchy, the recalcitrance of the common folk and perhaps also the greater accessibility of the western European intelligence to mechanical ideas and inventions, turned the process into quite novel directions.
His very will was benumbed, was crushed down as by the incumbence of a superior volition that would no longer permit his puny recalcitrance.