Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being refractory, in any sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or condition of being refractory.
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- noun The quality of being
refractory .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the trait of being unmanageable
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Examples
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Yes, and it was clear that Buckwheat was watching to learn the outcome of this veiled refractoriness.
CHAPTER XLV 2010
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Along the way he correctly spelled stratocracy, refractoriness, mendacious, and childrens.
John Seery: NEWSFLASH: Al Gore Awarded MacArthur "Genius" Grant! 2008
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Expressions of refractoriness and of love passed by turns over her youthful face when, after waiting for a quarter of an hour, neither her keen eye nor her heart had announced the arrival of him whom she knew to be due.
A Second Home 2007
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Yes, refractoriness is the #1 quality associated with raincoaster.
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I guess her refractoriness must me somewhat lost upon me.
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Expressions of refractoriness and of love passed by turns over her youthful face when, after waiting for a quarter of an hour, neither her keen eye nor her heart had announced the arrival of him whom she knew to be due.
A Second Home 2007
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An act of oblivion, as I may call it, shall pass upon all your former refractoriness: and you will once more make us happy in you, and in one another.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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And those wives whose refractoriness ye fear, exhort them, and avoid them in beds, and beat them; but if they obey you, seek not a way against them; verily Allah is ever Lofty, Grand.
The Three Faces of Islam Zoe Brain 2006
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He is willing to hope you to be all obedience, and would prevent all incitements to refractoriness.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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He would, then and there, lead to a shaft 60 feet deep, and deep in the jungle, too, at a spot so artfully concealed that no mortal man could ever unguided hope to find it, where was to be revealed a reef — a rich reef blasted by the mere refractoriness of the ore, a disadvantage which would vanish like smoke before a man of means.
My Tropic Isle 2003
minerva commented on the word refractoriness
Your papa will be obeyed. He is willing to hope you to be all obedience, and would prevent all incitements to refractoriness.
October 9, 2007
reesetee commented on the word refractoriness
Enjoying the Richardson quotes, Minerva. :-)
October 9, 2007