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Another word for recalcitrance

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The disposition boldly to defy or resist authority or an opposing force:
contempt, contumacy, defiance, despite, recalcitrancy. See resist
The quality or condition of being unruly:
disorderliness, fractiousness, indocility, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, unruliness, untowardness, wildness. See control, order, peace, resist

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It was a favourite idea of his that chemical affinity and capillary attraction would eventually be included under the same law, and it was perhaps because of its recalcitrance to this cherished generalization that the undulatory theory of light was distasteful to him.

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