refractoriness

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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 Donne, John

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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel

This was all he had to offer to the Father in expiation of his contumely and refractoriness, his errors and his falls.

From The Cathedral by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

And he only gave way after Bartek's refractoriness also had been softened by unusual eloquence on Porankiewicz's part.

From More Tales by Polish Authors by Various

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 Balzac, Honor? de