renitency

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It is a singular blessing, that nature has form’d the mind of man with the same happy backwardness and renitency against conviction, which is observed in old dogs—“of not learning new tricks.”

From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence

It is a singular blessing, that nature has form'd the mind of man with the same happy backwardness and renitency against conviction, which is observed in old dogs—'of not learning new tricks.'

From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence

Elasticity -- N. elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, renitency, buoyancy. rubber, India rubber, Indian rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic, baleen, natural rubber; neoprene, synthetic rubber, Buna-S, plastic. flexibility, Young's modulus.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Unwillingness -- N. unwillingness &c. adj.; indisposition, indisposedness†; disinclination, aversation†; nolleity†, nolition†; renitence†, renitency; reluctance; indifference &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

If it bind us in our station and capacity to an active renitency, it doth much more bind us up from such compliances.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander