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indocile, a.|ɪnˈdəʊsaɪl, -ˈdɒsɪl|
[a. F. indocile (15th c.), or ad. L. indocilis, f. in- (in-3) + docilis docile.]
Unwilling or unapt to be taught; not readily submitting to instruction or guidance; intractable.
1603Florio Montaigne i. xx. (1632) 43 Men have reason to checke the indocile libertie of this member. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. 13 Indocil intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and be proof against demonstration it self. 1794Godwin Cal. Williams 15 He had been indocile and restive to the pedant who held the office of his tutor. 1852Thackeray Esmond ii. i, We are indocile to put up with grief, however. 1884Ruskin Pleas. Eng. 20 The Lombards..were sternly indocile.
Hence inˈdocileness, indocility (Bailey 1727). |