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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Refusal of submission; obstinate noncompliance or nonconformity; refractoriness.

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  • noun The state of being recalcitrant.

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  • noun the trait of being unmanageable

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In use since at least 1856 (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, published 1985).

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