refractoriness
Example Sentences
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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 John Donne
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
Five babies at different stages of refractoriness are sprawling about on this strip of floor; they make noises all the time.
From Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India by Amy Carmichael
This is a triumph of education; refractoriness is overcome.
From The Education of the Child by Ellen Key
He is willing to hope you to be all obedience, and would prevent all incitements to refractoriness.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson
