单词 | renitence |
释义 | renitencen. 1. Resistance; reluctance or unwillingness to be compelled or persuaded; uncooperativeness. Cf. renitency n. 2. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > [noun] un-i-willa1225 unlustc1230 dangerc1290 loathnessa1300 thronessa1400 grudgingc1420 nilling?a1425 unlustiness?a1425 loathinessc1449 difficulty?c1450 grudge1477 sticking1525 scruple1526 unreadiness1526 sweerness1533 dangerousness1548 untowardnessa1555 envy1557 loathsomeness1560 retractation1563 stickling1589 indisposition1593 loathfulness1596 backwardness1597 unwillingness1597 reluctation1598 offwardness1600 undisposedness1600 hinka1614 reluctancy1621 reluctancea1628 renitence1640 nolencea1651 nolencya1651 indisposedness1651 shyness1651 nolition1653 costiveness1654 sullenness1659 scrupling1665 regret1667 queerness1687 stickiness1689 disinclination1695 uneasinessa1715 tarditude1794 disclination1812 inalacrity1813 grudgingness1820 tarrowing1832 reticence1863 grudgery1889 balkiness1894 safety first1913 the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > opposition or resistance > to constraint or compulsion obstancea1402 renitency1626 renitence1640 1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning ii. xiii. 129 Every passion doth through renitence [L. renitentiam] and prohibition..grow fresh and lively. 1652 W. Charleton Darknes Atheism 265 An exclusion of all coaction, violence, renitence or imposition. 1743 Hon. C. Yorke in Warburton's Unpubl. Papers (1841) 140 A man would not do amiss to shut up his books; and without the least renitence roll in the vortex of dulness. 1911 A. M. Low Amer. People II. xiv. 338 It is renitence against the spirit that carried men away from law. 1973 Italica 50 483 In England..the lukewarm interest in Manzoni's masterpiece..can be traced primarily to a pervasive renitence to the religious tenor of the work. 2. Physical resistance to motion, deformation, or pressure; = renitency n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > resistance resistance1578 renitation1598 renitency1613 renitence1659 obsistency1676 1659 W. Charleton Nat. Hist. Nutrition 65 The vital Heat doth consist in the rarefactive motion of the spirits, and the renitence of the grosser parts of the bloud. 1676 H. More Remarks 2 Disc. 14 The weight of Lead..had crammed the Sand together..that it stuck by renitence of its irregular parts, one against another. a1728 T. Weston tr. Galileo Math. Disc. (1730) i. 136 There is no Sphere so big, or of Matter so heavy, but that the Renitence of the Medium, tho' never so thin, checks its Acceleration. 1762 tr. J. Astruc Treat. Dis. Women II. i. 16 Thus it is only a phlogosis, when the pain, tumour, renitence, heat, and fever, are moderate. 1811 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Aug. 319 Contractibility..is inherent to the muscular fibre, and peculiar to it; as..is..renitence and elasticity to the albugineous fibre. 1836 Libr. Pract. Med. 7 105 A peculiar feeling of tension and elasticity, the idea of which might be better expressed by the single term renitence... The pain and renitence may belong to partial peritonitis. 1910 Internat. Clinics 20th Ser. 2 55 The resistance felt by the exploring hand in the large majority of cases, is that of renitence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1640 |
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