indocility
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He had to lament his daughter's capricious indocility and ironical shrewdness too often to persevere in a task so difficult as that of correcting an ill-disposed nature.
From The Ball at Sceaux by Honoré de Balzac
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
It is, I believe, not so “correct” as it once was to admire this; but I confess indocility to correctness, at least the correctness which varies with fashion.
From Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury
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
He manifested an independent spirit from his youth, and was expelled from a Jesuit school on the double charge of indocility and patriotism.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
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