recalcitration

English

Noun

recalcitration (countable and uncountable, plural recalcitrations)

A kicking back again; opposition; repugnance; refractoriness.
- 1897, Stanley John Weyman, “The Professor and the Harpy”, in For the Cause:
  In this well-meant attempt he was foiled by the recalcitration of both the parties concerned.

Related terms

recalcitrant

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “recalcitration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)