refractoriness

Example Sentences

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It cannot be doubted that a certain refractoriness to form is a typical feature of the Basque character.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

The disciplinarian, defeated in his attempt on Robinson, was compensated by a rare stroke of good fortune—a case of real refractoriness even this was not perfect, but it answered every purpose.

From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Reade, Charles

Take from me, O Lord, her perverseness, her wilfulness, her refractoriness, and hear thy Spirit saying in my soul: Heal me, O Lord, for I would be healed.

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John

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 Auerbach, Berthold

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