refractorily

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

A step further in recovery: and the free spirit draws near to life again, slowly indeed, almost refractorily, almost distrustfully.

From Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Once he overwhelmed her for so long with imprudent reproaches for her heartlessness and lack of tact, that at last she cried out defiantly and refractorily, "Why was Felix so?"

From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Schubin, Ossip