uncomplying

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He not only felt the uncomplying message of the queen as a sufficient mortification to his personal vanity, but as a public attack upon his influence and power as a king.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Cox, Francis Augustus

Age and wealth are uncomplying task-masters—habit and power endure restraint with an ill grace.

From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Lever, Charles James

On these terms they lived; and their character, influenced accordingly, was watchful, suspicious, and timid—yet obstinate, uncomplying, and skilful in evading the dangers to which they were exposed.

From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir

In this they were deceived; and his firmness and uncomplying integrity is supposed to have accelerated his fall.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

The law commandeth mercy, not compliance: And thus for mercy's sake he's uncomplying.

From Nathan the Wise; a dramatic poem in five acts by Taylor, William