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renitency

renitency


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Renitence  \Re*ni"tence\  (r?-n?"tens),  Renitency  \Re*ni"ten*cy\ 
  (-te-s?),  n.  [Cf.  F.  r['e]nitence.] 
  The  state  or  quality  of  being  renitent;  resistance; 
  reluctance.  --Sterne. 
 
  We  find  a  renitency  in  ourselves  to  ascribe  life  and 
  irritability  to  the  cold  and  motionless  fibers  of 
  plants.  --E.  Darwin.