recalcitrancy
Example Sentences
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Under this extreme recalcitrancy lies trouble of a kind that is manufactured only in Ireland.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he, bitter against the educational recalcitrancy of England, wanted to make a point against the "hard-dying social stigma which attaches to being in trade" in England.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the landlady read recalcitrancy in the girl's face, and knowing some things which Henrietta did not know, and being at no time one to brook opposition, she took the girl the wrong way.
From Starvecrow Farm by Stanley J. Weyman
For him in his recalcitrancy there was only a younger son's portion, the little seigneury of Eaucourt, which had been his mother's.
From The Path of the King by John Buchan
I suppose I shall ding some recalcitrancy into them some day, but it is uphill work.
From Erewhon Revisited by Samuel Butler
