单词 | renitent |
释义 | renitentadj.n. Now rare. A. adj. 1. Resistant to compulsion or persuasion; uncooperative, recalcitrant; unwilling, reluctant. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [adjective] > resisting rebel1340 resisting?a1425 repugnantc1443 rebela1450 resistentc1450 obstant1486 resistanta1513 reluctant1604 renitent1604 resistive1605 resistful1614 outstandingc1650 withstanding1711 unamenable1771 recalcitrating1870 1604 Abp. G. Abbot Reasons Dr. Hill Vnmasked v. 227 If you had ever reade any thing touching the Principles of Rhetorike, they are of no force at all, where men haue to doe, with a renitent Auditour. 1708 J. Hog Otia Christiana vi. 197 It is only a Power of Unbelief, and much strength of a renitent Principle. 1795 J. Lettice tr. I. H. Browne Immortality of Soul 84 Ourselves..perverse And renitent th'immortal ray reject. 1882 Edinb. Rev. July 8 The gaps left by renitent warriors were rapidly filled by intending plunderers. 1964 Ethnohist. 11 188 This husband-wife team of anthropologists worked with the little known, often misunderstood, and frequently renitent Chichimeca-Jonaz [tribe]. 1999 W. Laqueur in D. J. Whittaker Terrorism Reader (2002) iii. 27 The French..gradually lost the stomach for making the effort needed to keep the renitent country under its control. 2. That offers physical resistance to motion, deformation, or pressure. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > strength > [adjective] > unyielding hardeOE steevec1300 stubborn1577 unrelenting1594 unyielding1658 renitent1701 unsusceptible1893 the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [adjective] > resisting renitent1701 1701 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 3) ii. 245 An inflation of the Muscles whereby they become both soft, and yet renitent like so many Pillows. 1755 B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sci. 305 The electrical Matter..can go no further, by Reason of the renitent Quality of the silken Strings. 1823 N.-Y. Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 519 The tumours..are hard, and renitent. 1879 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women iv. 37 The right ovary was swollen, renitent, as big as a walnut. 1915 Amer. Jrnl. Urol. & Sexol. 11 376 It was immovable, regularly rounded, pushing back the anterior rectal wall, of uniform consistency, renitent and painless. B. n. With the. Renitent people as a class. ΚΠ 1847 F. Prandi tr. C. Cantù Reform. Europe I. 257 [He] constrained the people to go to mass, and punished the renitent with imprisonment and confiscation. 1908 F. Hirth Anc. Hist. China iv. 95 The renitent among the former adherents of Chóu-sin has dispersed in the hills. 1997 A. H. Pacso Sick Heroes iv. 100 The renitent are condemned to fail. They are often destroyed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1604 |
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