unbendingness

      It was a trusted male servant, and Ramyon remembered the leader's duty to cultivate loyalty through the four virtues -- kindness, rightness, honesty, and unbendingness.

The Saturn Game Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1981

The enclosed, boiling circumstances of his captivity, at once intimate and distant, made Saladin Chamcha want to argue with the woman, unbendingness can also be monomania, he wanted to say, it can be tyranny, and also it can be brittle, whereas what is flexible can also be humane, and strong enough to last.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

The high head and the stiff neck were the physical types of an unbendingness which most men craved.

Brooks by the Traveller's Way 1864-1923 1902

She met them with the slender unbendingness that was her own, a feminine of inspirited manhood.

The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893, With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses 1893

Because she, a methodical, inflexible woman, with that unbendingness which a profound moralist calls the worship rendered to pride by a feelingless soul, because she could not understand the possibility of tastes and habits different to those of ordinary routine, or of her own starched life.

Lady Byron Vindicated Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 1870

Offended women can be emotional to a towering pride, that bends while it assumes unbendingness: it must come to their sensations, as it were a sign of humanity in the majestic, speechless king of beasts; and they are pathetically melted, abjectly hypocritical; a nice confusion of sentiments, traceable to a tender bosom's appreciation of strength and the perceptive compassion for its mortality.

Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

She met them with the slender unbendingness that was her own; a feminine of inspirited manhood.

One of Our Conquerors — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

Offended women can be emotional to a towering pride, that bends while it assumes unbendingness: it must come to their sensations, as it were a sign of humanity in the majestic, speechless king of beasts; and they are pathetically melted, abjectly hypocritical; a nice confusion of sentiments, traceable to a tender bosom's appreciation of strength and the perceptive compassion for its mortality.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

Offended women can be emotional to a towering pride, that bends while it assumes unbendingness: it must come to their sensations, as it were

Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete George Meredith 1868

She met them with the slender unbendingness that was her own; a feminine of inspirited manhood.

One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868