indocility
Example Sentences
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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
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
It is, I believe, not so “correct” as it once was to admire this; but I confess indocility to correctness, at least the correctness which varies with fashion.
From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George
But the extreme illiterateness and indocility of this maid are surprising, considering that she wants not inquisitiveness, appears willing to learn, and, in other respects, has quick parts.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Richardson, Samuel
Hence a certain indocility and rigidness of mind which they only escape who live out of the fashion or have strength to lead it or to live above it.
From The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) by Tyrrell, George
