recalcitrate

1 Here, dear Christopher, I recalcitrate, and decline printing the rest of the sentence; but as to "Things in General"—I am somewhat smitten with the suggestion.

2 Against all pretensions on the part of science or experimental reasoning to assume this post he was especially given to rebel and recalcitrate.

3 The people in some places recalcitrated violently; but the Jesuits and Ultramontanes triumphed.

4 Still there are some left who recalcitrate pertinaciously, clinging convulsively with hands and feet to their old ignorance.

5 He braced his feet and stood his ground, and made the wise men wait, While with his heels at all around he did recalcitrate.

6 Whilst in Europe the same classes sometimes recalcitrate even against the supreme power, the American submits without a murmur to the authority of the pettiest magistrate.

7 And the West is kicking, kicking with both feet, kicking like a bay steer who has a kick coming and knows how to recalcitrate.

8 Again and again, as the magnitude of the task became manifest, we find him doubting, hesitating, recalcitrating, and yet captive.

9 While in Europe the same classes sometimes recalcitrate even against the supreme power, the American submits without a murmur to the authority of the pettiest magistrate.

10 V. recoil, react; spring back, fly back, bounce back, bound back; rebound, reverberate, repercuss†, recalcitrate†; echo, ricochet.

11 August made no moaning or recalcitrating; took, on the prescribed terms, the inevitable that had come.

12 We honor the "uncultured West" for making a heroic kick, and trust that it will keep on recalcitrating until every unclean statue forced upon its attention in the name of art is forever disfigured.

13 Instead of ready-money, there is nothing but rebellious debating and recalcitrating.

14 Wherefore recalcitrate against that will,   From which the end can never be cut off,   And which has many times increased your pain?

1 反抗

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2 不顺从

disobedient recalcitrant insubordinate nonconforming unbiddable unamenable unmalleable uncomplying incompliant noncompliance disobedience nonconformance nonconform inductile undutiful unconformable unconformity disobey

3 顽抗

contumacious renitent recalcitrant recalcitrance contumacy

4 不服从

disobedient recalcitrant insubordinate incompliant disobediently disobedience insubordination nonconformance disobey defy