refractoriness
Example Sentences
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He is willing to hope you to be all obedience, and would prevent all incitements to refractoriness.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson
Donatello's refractoriness as regarded his ears had evidently cost him something, and he now came close to Miriam's side, gazing at her with an appealing air, as if to solicit forgiveness.
From The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Calvin and Farel resisted; their political enemies made a pretext of this refractoriness to exile them from Geneva, whence they were banished for some years.
From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Honor? de Balzac
During the reign of King William, Colonel Romer advised the fortification of Rhode Island, which he says had never been done "by reason of the mean condition and refractoriness of the inhabitants."
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
They had proved but turbulent occupants, being in a constant state of refractoriness against their landlords, the bachelor brothers, who seemed to be somewhat in awe of them.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various
