refractoriness

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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

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

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)

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