resistencyn.

a1623 W. Pemble Vindiciæ Gratiæ (1627) 142 There may bee a small resistency against Grace, namely in the reprobate opposing and wilfully neglecting all those outward meanes of Grace, all those inward workes of grace.

1640 Bp. J. Wilkins Disc. New World & Another Planet (new ed.) ii. ix. 197 It will easily follow, that these Bodies have resistency from one another.

a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) iii. i. 77 We feel things at a Distance in the dark, by the Resistency which they make upon the further end of the Staff that we hold in our hands.

1705 J. Beaumont Hist. Treat. Spirits xii. 395 It yielded to my touch, so that I could not find any sensible resistency in it.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Contranitency, reaction, a resistency against pressure.

a1834 H. N. Coleridge in S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1847) I. p. lxvii That which to the passive and inert may be a tainting experience, to minds like his, full of activity and resistency, is but a strengthening experiment.

1867 Detroit Rev. Med. & Pharmacy Mar. 121 I..was struck with..the great thickness and resistency of the perinæum.

1919 Geografiska Annaler 1 98 These ridges dominate the topography and they give an impression of great massiveness and resistency.

1977 Lat. Amer. Perspectives 4 64 Peasant resistency to the other agrarian reform structure..has also been marked in the Cajamarca region.