refractoriness
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Donatello's refractoriness as regarded his ears had evidently cost him something, and he now came close to Miriam's side, gazing at her with an appealing air, as if to solicit forgiveness.
From The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The sparkle in his dark eyes became a blaze; the expression of defiance and refractoriness on his face was not pleasant to see.
From The Son of His Mother by Clara Viebig
Calvin and Farel resisted; their political enemies made a pretext of this refractoriness to exile them from Geneva, whence they were banished for some years.
From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Honor? de Balzac
They had proved but turbulent occupants, being in a constant state of refractoriness against their landlords, the bachelor brothers, who seemed to be somewhat in awe of them.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various
It is altogether a mistake," said Mrs. Heiberg, absorbed in counting her stitches, "altogether a mistake that genius is marked by restlessness, refractoriness, an irregular life, or the like.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
