单词 | recalcitrance |
释义 | recalcitrancen. Recalcitrant character or behaviour. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > intractability or recalcitrance unbowsomeness1340 wincing1426 restiness?c1550 restiffness?1561 restiveness?1561 intractability1579 untractablenessa1600 indocility1648 non-compliance1648 intractableness1664 non-complying1687 uncompliableness1687 incompliance1708 non-cooperation1795 recalcitrancy1844 recalcitrance1845 uncompliability1880 bolshiness1975 the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > disobedient stubbornness contumacec1230 unbuxomnessa1300 unbuxomheada1325 contumacyc1386 sturdinessa1400 stoutnessc1400 contumacityc1420 pervicacy1537 untractablenessa1600 pervicacity1604 contumation1618 refractariness1624 refractoriness1627 incorrigiblenessa1631 indocibleness1647 immorigerousness1649 contumaciousness1654 refracture1659 intractableness1664 unmanageableness1664 refractiveness1674 untractibleness1676 pervicaciousness1692 untreatableness1693 untractability1797 recalcitrancy1844 recalcitrance1845 1845 tr. H. Zschokke Autobiogr. 207 They contented themselves with the legal punishment when the recalcitrance [Ger. Widerspenstigkeit] of individual parish priests became too audacious. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 32 The Senate showed signs of indignant recalcitrance against her attacks on those whose power she feared. 1939 R. P. Warren Night Rider xvi. 433 She did not actively resist as he tried to draw her, but he sensed in her the recalcitrance of inertia. 1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Feb. 62/1 The cover that secrecy afforded to the recalcitrance of a few arrogant men. 1992 Raritan Summer 135 Given the enormity of this potential foe, the wild strength and furious recalcitrance of Dickinson's poetry is quite appropriate. 2003 R. E. Goodin Refl. Democracy vii. 123 Frustrated though we might often feel by others' recalcitrance, nevertheless we are rarely tempted to consign persistent advocates of opposing perspectives to the loony-bin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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