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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
recalcitrate .
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Examples
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But the elder sister recalcitrates violently, summoning to her aid her "director," and the younger, who is financially independent, [330] determines to leave the house.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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The ebullient juvenile vigor of the intensely self-conscious youth gladly recalcitrates against the historical reality of society, — is loth to recognize for itself any other limits than such as are imposed by the general and, as yet, not historically-determined moral law.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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Chartiers, set on fire; for there too the overloaded Ass frightfully recalcitrates.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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