Definition of Renitence

1. n. The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance.

Definition of Renitence

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Renitence

renierite
renies
reniform
reniform leaf
reniform pelvis
renig
renigged
renigging
renigs
renin
renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system
renin-angiotensin system
renins
reniportal
renitence (current term)
renitences
renitencies
renitency
renitent
renk
renker
renkest
renminbi
renminbis
rennase
rennases
renne
renned
rennes

Literary usage of Renitence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thesaurus of English words and phrases by Peter Mark Roget, Samuel Romilly Roget (1879)
"... renitence ; reluctance ; indifference &c. 866; backwardness &c. adj. ; slowness &c. 275; want of -alacrity, - readiness; ..."

2. British Moralists: Being Selections from Writers Principally of the by Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge (1897)
"... they were nothing but Passion from Corporeal Things, without the Sentient or the renitence, or the Reaction made upon local Motion in a Body duly mixed ..."

3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1837)
"... although the epigastrium presented that appearance of fullness and tension termed by the French " renitence." The bowels, too, are constipated, ..."

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