Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The resistance of a body to pressure; the effect of elasticity.
- noun Moral resistance; reluctance; disinclination.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
renitence .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word renitency.
Examples
-
To impose this upon the apostle, that he should say, “Truly, for the most part, or in my ordinary walking, I do not sin, but withal I will it not; but when I am surprised with temptations then it is otherwise with me, there is no renitency in my will to sin,” is doubtless to wrong him.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
-
If you intend that part of it which holds out his renitency against the evil he did, in the expression of
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
-
There is an active renitency in the will against sin, whoso bait is exposed to the soul, and wherewith it is enticed, allured, or entangled; when of all the faculties of the soul, if any thing be done in any act of sin in unregenerate men, the will is the ringleader.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
-
The residue of this paragraph is intolerably sophistical, confounding the renitency of the inward man, the principle of grace that is in the wills of believers, with the convictions of the judgments and consciences of unregenerate persons, and their striving against sin on that account.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
-
Or with a cheerful willing love; he will love them without reluctancy or renitency.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
-
a renitency of the will to that which was done in part, and so far as to make the action itself remiss, and not to enwrap the whole consent of the will, he farther declares, verse 17, telling us that there is a perfect, unconsenting “I,” or internal principle, in the very doing of evil: “It is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
-
It is a singular blessing, that nature has form’d the mind of man with the same happy backwardness and renitency against conviction, which is observed in old dogs — ‘of not learning new tricks.’
-
It is a singular blessing, that nature has form’d the mind of man with the same happy backwardness and renitency against conviction, which is observed in old dogs — ‘of not learning new tricks.’
qms commented on the word renitency
A pause before action is hesitancy.
A trifling aversion is reticency,
But if the refusal
Is firmer than usual
Reluctance amounts to a renitency.
December 11, 2017