recalcitration

From this hour there was no serious attempt at recalcitration on her part.

The Woodlanders 2006

The system of "concentration" circuits, which had given such adverse results during the Rebellion (_vide_ p. 392), was revived in the provinces of Batangas and Cavite, obliging the waverers between submission and recalcitration to accept a defined legal or illegal status.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

The recalcitration of Austria, which had reached the point of threatening war if Parma were joined to Piedmont, contained the germs of her dissolution as an Italian power.

Cavour Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn 1898

Her mother had no objection to offer to this; but as soon as the horseman had cantered down the drive toward the highway, Mrs. Dornell's sympathy with Betty's recalcitration began to die out.

A Group of Noble Dames Thomas Hardy 1884

From this hour there was no serious attempt at recalcitration on her part.

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

And yet I think that one cannot read Addison's praises without a certain recalcitration, like that which one feels in the case of the model boy who wins all the prizes, including that for good conduct.

Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Leslie Stephen 1868

The true retribution of every wicked deed is contained in the recalcitration of its own motive.

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

More than modern independence was prepared for, though I should not have expected recalcitration in a young Lily; but I think there was more ruffling of temper and more reserve than I can quite understand. '

Beechcroft at Rockstone Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Inwardly chuckling that these symptoms of recalcitration had not taken place until the fair malcontent was, as he mentally termed it, under his thumb, Archibald coolly replied,

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

We have ourselves been caned severely in passing through a wood by the rebound, the recalcitration we may call it, of elastic branches which we had displaced.

The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822