insubmissive

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Wilder is the best representative of the American he describes�lonely, nomadic and insubmissive.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the point of view of the European, an American is nomad in relation to place, disattached in relation to time, lonely in relation to society, and insubmissive to circumstance, destiny, or God.

From Time Magazine Archive

We find people with feverish spirits—unhappy, discontented, fretted, worried, perhaps insubmissive and rebellious.

From Making the Most of Life by Miller, J. R. (James Russell)

Would this insubmissive spirit have passed out of her writings, as it passed, for instance, out of those of George Sand?

From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund

Lamennais, no less devout in spirit than they, died insubmissive, and above his grave, among the poor of P�re-Lachaise, no cross was erected.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund