refractoriness
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I considered them, therefore, as beings influenced by the most deplorable obduracy and refractoriness of spirit.
From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)
The refractoriness and the indolence of Frau Ceres were very serviceable, at first, in lending to the whole establishment an air of respectability.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold
Take from me, O Lord, her perverseness, her wilfulness, her refractoriness, and hear thy Spirit saying in my soul: Heal me, O Lord, for I would be healed.
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John
This is a triumph of education; refractoriness is overcome.
From The Education of the Child by Key, Ellen
Unless you had brought into the world some extraordinary refractoriness to the influence of evil, the process that you have undergone could not easily fail of being efficacious.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 by Various
