Definition of "recalcitrating" []

• Present participle of recalcitrate. (verb)

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• "We honor the "uncultured West" for making a heroic kick, and trust that it will keep on recalcitrating until every unclean statue forced upon its attention in the name of art is forever disfigured."
• "Again and again, as the magnitude of the task became manifest, we find him doubting, hesitating, recalcitrating, and yet captive."
• "They were the "deeds of arrangement" of mediaeval society affirmed and re-affirmed from time to time, and the principal controversy was, of course, between the king and nation -- the king trying to see how far the nation would let him go, and the nation murmuring and recalcitrating, and seeing how many acts of administration they could prevent, and how many of its claims they could resist."