recalcitrating

“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.”

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.

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

Thomas Carlyle

“They were the "deeds of arrangement" of mediaeval society affirmed and re-affirmed from time to time, and the principal controversy was, of course, between the king and nation -- the king trying to see how far the nation would let him go, and the nation murmuring and recalcitrating, and seeing how many acts of administration they could prevent, and how many of its claims they could resist.”

The English Constitution

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

The French Revolution

“But the absolute putting of myself at the disposal of another's will, which is expressed so tyrannously in Loyola's demand, is the simple duty of every Christian, and as long as we have recalcitrating wills, which recoil at anything which Christ commands or appoints, and perk up their own inclinations in the face of His solemn commandment, or that shrink from doing and suffering whatsoever He imposes and enjoins, we have still to learn what it means to be Christ's disciples.”

Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)