indocility
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The very suspicion of partiality to character, fortune, or rank, would frustrate the effect of the rewards bestowed, and provoke indocility, jealousy, and disgust, in those who received none.
From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by Dallas, R. C. (Robert Charles)
I am not supposing any indocility, or unwillingness to listen.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
In this Essay I have treated of nothing more than the inherent restiveness and indocility of man, which accompany him at least through all the earlier sections and divisions of his life.
From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by Godwin, William
Wouldst thou have the innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood?
From Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
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
