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- noun Plural form of
recalcitration .
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No doubt the man who meditates upon his own crime or folly at the very moment when he is suffering from its sharp recalcitrations, is just about as miserable a wretch as the reformatory of the world can present; but when, to the effects upon himself, he is compelled to think of the cruelty he has exercised towards others -- and those perhaps found out to be his best friends -- we doubt if there are any words beyond the vocabulary of the condemned that are sufficient to express his anguish.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII Alexander Leighton 1837
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