refractoriness

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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 Drake, Samuel Adams

This is a triumph of education; refractoriness is overcome.

From The Education of the Child by Key, Ellen

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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

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