indocility
(ɪndəʊˈsɪlɪtɪ)
[f. prec. + -ity; perh. after F. indocilité (16th c.) or L. indocilitās.]
Indocile character or nature; intractableness, unruliness.
| 1648 W. Mountague Devout Ess. i. Pref. a iv b, For Humane Nature..is well charactered in the stiffness and indocility of the Pharisees. a 1656 Bp. Hall St. Paul's Combat (T.), To have left us in their miserable darkness and indocility. 1785 J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 537 Ireland, I think, stands between us and evil. Her indocility may have changed the plans of the cabinet. 1873 Hamerton Intell. Life ii. ii. (1875) 54 Many of us..were remarkable for our indocility in boyhood. |