recalcitrate

Example Sentences

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Against all pretensions on the part of science or experimental reasoning to assume this post he was especially given to rebel and recalcitrate.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Here, dear Christopher, I recalcitrate, and decline printing the rest of the sentence; but as to "Things in General"—I am somewhat smitten with the suggestion.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various

Wherefore recalcitrate against that will,   From which the end can never be cut off,   And which has many times increased your pain?

From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

While in Europe the same classes sometimes recalcitrate even against the supreme power, the American submits without a murmur to the authority of the pettiest magistrate.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de

Still there are some left who recalcitrate pertinaciously, clinging convulsively with hands and feet to their old ignorance.

From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan