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recalcitrances

recalcitrances is the plural of recalcitrance.

Meaning of recalcitrance

Noun

recalcitrance (countable and uncountable, plural recalcitrances)

  1. The state of being recalcitrant.
    • Such evaluation, abstracted from historical necessity, was in Hegel's opinion a symptom of the sterile recalcitrance of Fichte and the Romantics.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in...

Questions about recalcitrances

What is recalcitrances the plural of?
Recalcitrances is the plural of recalcitrance.

Words near recalcitrances in the dictionary

  1. recalcined
  2. recalcines
  3. recalcing
  4. recalcining
  5. recalcitrance
  6. recalcitrances
  7. recalcitrancies
  8. recalcitrancy
  9. recalcitrant
  10. recalcitrantly
  11. recalcitrants

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