indocility
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If I still persevere in my old opinions, it is no small comfort to me that it is not with regard to doctrines properly yours that I discover my indocility.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
In this Essay I have treated of nothing more than the inherent restiveness and indocility of man, which accompany him at least through all the earlier sections and divisions of his life.
From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by Godwin, William
Quetzalcoatl next appears as a religious reformer, but is not listened to by men, whose indocility is punished by the appalling hurricane during which such as escaped became monkeys.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various
I am not supposing any indocility, or unwillingness to listen.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
Many of us who were remarkable for our indocility in boyhood, and remarkable for nothing else, have found much consolation in this passage.
From The Intellectual Life by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert