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recalcitration|rɪˌkælsɪˈtreɪʃən|
[See prec. and -ation.]
The action of recalcitrating, or ‘kicking’ against something.
1658Phillips, Recalcitration, a striking back with the heel. 1678J. J[ones] Brit. Church 364 With unevangelical revenge, and recalcitration, after fair eviction. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xl, These symptoms of recalcitration. 1861J. G. Sheppard Fall Rome viii. 415 The hard battle which they had daily to maintain with the recalcitration of the proprietor and the extortion of the treasury. 1880L. Stephen Pope ii. 46 One cannot read Addison's praises without a certain recalcitration. |