Definition of "refractoriness" []

• The quality of being refractory. (noun)

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• "Yes, and it was clear that Buckwheat was watching to learn the outcome of this veiled refractoriness."
• "Along the way he correctly spelled stratocracy, refractoriness, mendacious, and childrens."
• "Expressions of refractoriness and of love passed by turns over her youthful face when, after waiting for a quarter of an hour, neither her keen eye nor her heart had announced the arrival of him whom she knew to be due."