recalcitrance

recalcitrance
index contempt (disobedience to the court), contest (dispute), defiance, resistance, revolt, tenacity

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  • récalcitrance — [ʀekalsitʀɑ̃s] n. f. ÉTYM. 1865; de récalcitrant. ❖ ♦ Didactique ou littéraire. 1 (Personnes). Opiniâtreté dans la résistance; attitude récalcitrante. 1 Relativement simple s il s agit de la récalcitrance d un voyageur solitaire, la question se… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Recalcitrance — is a historical novel written by India based author Anurag Kumar. It uses the mutiny of 1857 as backdrop and describes the event from the view point of contemporary Indians. This is the unique quality of the novel as most of the other novels have …   Wikipedia

  • recalcitrance — recalcitrant ► ADJECTIVE ▪ obstinately uncooperative. ► NOUN ▪ a recalcitrant person. DERIVATIVES recalcitrance noun recalcitrantly adverb. ORIGIN from Latin recalcitrare kick out with the heels …   English terms dictionary

  • recalcitrance — noun Date: 1856 the state of being recalcitrant …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • recalcitrance — See recalcitrant. * * * …   Universalium

  • recalcitrance — noun The state of being recalcitrant …   Wiktionary

  • recalcitrance — Synonyms and related words: antagonism, antipathy, averseness, aversion, backlash, backwardness, bad blood, challenge, clashing, collision, combative reaction, competition, complaint, conflict, confutation, contempt, contradiction, contraposition …   Moby Thesaurus

  • recalcitrance — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The disposition boldly to defy or resist authority or an opposing force: contempt, contumacy, defiance, despite, recalcitrancy. See RESIST. 2. The quality or condition of being unruly: disorderliness, fractiousness …   English dictionary for students

  • recalcitrance — re·cal·ci·trance || rɪ kælsɪtrÉ™ns n. rebelliousness, disobedience; stubbornness, state of being unmanageable …   English contemporary dictionary

  • recalcitrance — re·cal·ci·trance …   English syllables

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