refractoriness

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From this refractoriness towards a royal ambassador it was thought the most serious results were now to be apprehended.

From King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

An act of oblivion, as I may call it, shall pass upon all your former refractoriness: and you will once more make us happy in you, and in one another.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Richardson, Samuel

This is a triumph of education; refractoriness is overcome.

From The Education of the Child by Key, Ellen

Five babies at different stages of refractoriness are sprawling about on this strip of floor; they make noises all the time.

From Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India by Carmichael, Amy

Unless you had brought into the world some extraordinary refractoriness to the influence of evil, the process that you have undergone could not easily fail of being efficacious.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 by Various