Word: 'recalcitrant' • Extended Annotations

recalcitrant

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Ancestral Lore of recalcitrant

1823, "refusing to submit, not submissive or compliant"
from French récalcitrant, literally "kicking back"

Latin recalcitro, recalcitrare "be disobedient; deny access"

recalcitrant adjective

esp. of a person or animal: obstinately disobedient; uncooperative, refractory; objecting to constraint or restriction;
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