recalcitrancy

Example Sentences

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Under this extreme recalcitrancy lies trouble of a kind that is manufactured only in Ireland.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he, bitter against the educational recalcitrancy of England, wanted to make a point against the "hard-dying social stigma which attaches to being in trade" in England.

From Time Magazine Archive

What though they warn me that at first— It may be merely fancy— The stomach's sure to try its worst In base recalcitrancy?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 12, 1891 by Various

With supreme skill, she kept this sword of Damocles poised above the Bison's head, and more than once she was actually on the point of really dropping it— for his recalcitrancy grew and grew.

From Eminent Victorians by Strachey, Giles Lytton

I suppose I shall ding some recalcitrancy into them some day, but it is uphill work. 

From Erewhon Revisited by Butler, Samuel