refractoriness
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This was all he had to offer to the Father in expiation of his contumely and refractoriness, his errors and his falls.
From The Cathedral by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
The refractoriness and the indolence of Frau Ceres were very serviceable, at first, in lending to the whole establishment an air of respectability.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
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
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
The walls of the pit were steeply, unstably irregular, varying in pitch and shape with the hardness and refractoriness of the strata composing them.
From The Vortex Blaster by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
