recalcitrate

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While in Europe the same classes sometimes recalcitrate even against the supreme power, the American submits without a murmur to the authority of the pettiest magistrate.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de

Wherefore recalcitrate against that will,   From which the end can never be cut off,   And which has many times increased your pain?

From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

He braced his feet and stood his ground, and made the wise men wait, While with his heels at all around he did recalcitrate.

From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry

Still there are some left who recalcitrate pertinaciously, clinging convulsively with hands and feet to their old ignorance.

From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan

Against all pretensions on the part of science or experimental reasoning to assume this post he was especially given to rebel and recalcitrate.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles