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renitency Now rare.|rɪˈnaɪtənsɪ, ˈrɛnɪtənsɪ|
Also 7 -ancie.
[See prec. and -ency.]
†1. Physical resistance, esp. the resistance of a body to pressure. Obs.
1613M. Ridley Magn. Bodies 2 Freed from all obstacle and renitency. 1634T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. vii. xvii. (1678) 183 The signs of such a Tumour are a certain renitency or resistance. 1681Glanvill Sadducismus 157 It necessarily and by an insuperable Renitencie expels and excludes all other Matter. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Renitency, is that Resistence which there is in solid Bodies when they press upon, or are impelled one against another.
2. Resistance to constraint or compulsion, opposition, reluctance. Now rare.
1626Prynne Perpet. Regen. Man's Est. 324 There is a reluctancie, renitancie [pr. reuitancie], dislike and hatred of it in his soule. 1668R. Steele Husbandman's Calling vi. (1678) 157 His oxe..suffers the sharp visits of the goad without renitency or opposition. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iv. iv. (1852) 96 The obstruction which the renitencies of that gentleman threatened. 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy III. xxxiv, Nature has form'd the mind of man with the same happy backwardness and renitency against conviction. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. ix. (1819) 129 We have here no endeavour, but the reverse of it; a constant renitency and reluctance. 1844H. Rogers Ess. (1855) III. 109 This renitency of Mr. Gladstone's to accept..the consequences of his Church Principles. |