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indocile

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Resistant to authority or discipline; recalcitrant.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not teachable; not submissive to instruction or guidance; intractable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not teachable; indisposed to be taught, trained, or disciplined; not easily instructed or governed; dull; intractable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Unwilling to be taught or instructed; intractable or recalcitrant.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of persons

Etymologies

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From either the French indocile or the Latin indocilis.

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Examples

  • While her ladyship declaimed, the clergyman's wandering eye confessed his absent mind; his thoughts travelling, perhaps, to accomplish a truce betwixt Saladin and Conrade of Mountserrat, unless they chanced to be occupied with some occurrences of that very day, so that the lady was obliged to recall her indocile auditor with the leading question, "You are well acquainted with Dryden, of course, Mr. Cargill?"

    St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

  • a truce betwixt Saladin and Conrade of Mountserrat, unless they chanced to be occupied with some occurrences of that very day, so that the lady was obliged to recall her indocile auditor with the leading question,

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • The bullet that pierced Alexis's heart was not a random bullet shot from a cop's gun to the body of an 'indocile' kid.

    Anarkismo.net 2009

  • The bullet that pierced Alexis's heart was not a random bullet shot from a cop's gun to the body of an 'indocile' kid.

    Anarkismo.net 2009

  • A feeling of sudden, proud self-confidence, an indocile wish to walk unmoved in spite of grim environments, plainly possessed him, and when he reached the wicket-gate he turned in without apparent effort.

    Wessex Tales 2006

  • But it was an indocile, a scornful, and a sarcastic face - the face of a man difficult to lead, and impossible to drive.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • The vulgar of all ranks are invariably sensual and indocile; yet

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • Professor Paul Emanuel, to wit, never lost an opportunity of intimating his opinion that mine was rather a fiery and rash nature — adventurous, indocile, and audacious.

    Villette 2003

  • The cabmen of Paris form a distinct class, a separate society, composed of all sorts of elements -- a turbulent, indocile, rebellious set of men, always in revolt against their employers and against the law, which holds them with an iron and inflexible grasp.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

  • Mount Pruno, till, finding disciples there no less indocile to the severity of his discipline than the former, he was determined to pursue himself that rigorous plan of life which he had hitherto unsuccessfully proposed to others.

    The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

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