Adjective : a refractory child. From Dictionary.com.
A refractoriness of about 1200°C is quite acceptable. From Wordnik.com. [3. Technical and Production Information] Reference
I guess her refractoriness must me somewhat lost upon me. From Wordnik.com. [Leslie Hall: the whitest woman in rap « raincoaster] Reference
Yes, refractoriness is the #1 quality associated with raincoaster. From Wordnik.com. [Leslie Hall: the whitest woman in rap « raincoaster] Reference
This test is used to compare the refractoriness of different clays. procedure. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
Generally the more alumina in a refractory body the better is its refractoriness. From Wordnik.com. [1. Refractories] Reference
Along the way he correctly spelled stratocracy, refractoriness, mendacious, and childrens. From Wordnik.com. [John Seery: NEWSFLASH: Al Gore Awarded MacArthur "Genius" Grant!] Reference
For our self-made firebricks, often possessing limited refractoriness, this is an advantage. From Wordnik.com. [2. Kilns] Reference
He is willing to hope you to be all obedience, and would prevent all incitements to refractoriness. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
The more refractoriness and binding power the bond clay possesses, the more sawdust can be added to it. From Wordnik.com. [1. Refractories] Reference
The walls of the pit were steeply, unstably irregular, varying in pitch and shape with the refractoriness of the strata composing them. From Wordnik.com. [Masters Of The Vortex]
I dread the interested refractoriness of your nobles, who cannot all be gratified, and who may be unwilling to submit to the requisite sacrifices. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
An act of oblivion, as I may call it, shall pass upon all your former refractoriness: and you will once more make us happy in you, and in one another. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Pure kaolin is found at the site of its parent rock (primary clay) and has not been mixed with impurities which would reduce its refractoriness and change its colour. From Wordnik.com. [1. Refractories] Reference
They had proved but turbulent occupants, being in a constant state of refractoriness against their landlords, the bachelor brothers, who seemed to be somewhat in awe of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
Unless you had brought into the world some extraordinary refractoriness to the influence of evil, the process that you have undergone could not easily fail of being efficacious. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference
Besides possessing refractoriness our refractory products such as firebricks and saggars should be able to withstand many cycles of heating and cooling without cracking or spalling. From Wordnik.com. [1. Refractories] Reference
This is a triumph of education; refractoriness is overcome. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of the Child] Reference
In a larger sense, force is the universal agent relied upon to correct refractoriness. From Wordnik.com. [The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion] Reference
Perhaps he whispered the. tale of his subjects 'refractoriness in the ears of one of his mistresses. From Wordnik.com. [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference
Yes, and it was clear that Buckwheat was watching to learn the outcome of this veiled refractoriness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
"But he must not, shall not, go into the monastery!" cried the young duchess, with childish refractoriness. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
This was all he had to offer to the Father in expiation of his contumely and refractoriness, his errors and his falls. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral] Reference
There was only one part of his progress in which Carefinotu showed refractoriness; that was in learning the English language. From Wordnik.com. [Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery] Reference
Pernambuco I was soon put by that design through the refractoriness of some under me, and the discontents and backwardness of some of my men. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage to New Holland] Reference
Visualization of the endoscopic changes, during sleep and under positive pressure, was of great value to understanding the mechanisms of refractoriness. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
Take from me, O Lord, her perverseness, her wilfulness, her refractoriness, and hear thy Spirit saying in my soul: Heal me, O Lord, for I would be healed. From Wordnik.com. [Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel] Reference
Increased excitability may reflect the partial depolarization of an axon via the CS, whereas decreased excitability could reflect the complete depolarization (and subsequent refractoriness) of axons via CS. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
The masses were to be laden down with burdens to curb their refractoriness; the poor man was to be "forced and driven, as we force and drive pigs or wild cattle" (Sammtl. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
It rose to the level of absolute refractoriness. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
But this was mere refractoriness. From Wordnik.com. [George Borrow The Man and His Books] Reference
Contumacy and refractoriness. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Commandments] Reference
"Now that is enough of refractoriness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of the Great Elector] Reference
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