Definitions
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- adjective Making much resistance.
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- adjective Making much
resistance .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In these council lodges, around the blazing fire, the Indians have uttered speech more eloquent than a Pitt or a Chatham in St. St.phens or a Webster in a Senate hall, an oratory that aroused the disintegrated Indian tribes and far separated clans into such a masterful and resistful force that the
The Vanishing Race Joseph Kossuth Dixon 1891
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"It has been long known that, with increase of years, up to that period of life which has been denominated the second childhood, the human constitution becomes gradually more resistful, and as it were slowly hardened against the repeated attacks of those more acute disorders, incident to an inferior degree of sanitary civilisation, by which large portions of an infant population are continually overcome and rapidly swept away.
Friends in Council — First Series Arthur Helps 1844
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