uncomplying

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Others of the company, as Vane and Adams, incurred the Protector's displeasure by too uncomplying principles.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter

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

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

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)

But Súdáveh still kept in view her own design, and still laboring for its success, sedulously read her own incantations to prevent disappointment, at any rate to punish the uncomplying youth if she failed.

From The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Gottheil, Richard James Horatio