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
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)
He manifested an independent spirit from his youth, and was expelled from a Jesuit school on the double charge of indocility and patriotism.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
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
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
