Definition of Mulishness

1. Noun. The trait of being difficult to handle or overcome.

Exact synonyms: Obstinacy, Obstinance, Stubbornness
Generic synonyms: Intractability, Intractableness
Derivative terms: Stubborn, Stubborn

Definition of Mulishness

1. Noun. The characteristic of being mulish. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mulishness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mulishness

mulgas
mulibrey nanism
mulid
muliebral
muliebrities
muliebrity
mulier
mulierly
mulierose
mulierosity
mulierty
muling
mulish
mulishly
mulishness (current term)
mulishnesses
mull
mull over
mulla
mullagatawnies
mullagatawny
mullah
mullahcracies
mullahcracy
mullahism
mullahisms
mullahs
mullar
mullarky

Literary usage of Mulishness

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

1. Poems by James Clarence Mangan, John Mitchel (1859)
"Here is the gist of their mystified pages, Here is the wisdom we purchase with gold— Children of Light, leave the world to its mulishness, Things to their ..."

2. Anthologia Germanica =: German Anthology : a Series of Translations from the by James Clarence Mangan (1845)
"... Children of Light, leave the world to its mulishness, Things to their natures, and fools to their foolishness; Berries were Utter in forests of old. ..."

3. The Crime by Richard Grelling (1917)
"From the side of the German Government, and of their official defenders, this mulishness on the part of Austria cannot, however, be regarded as a reason for ..."

4. Poems by James Clarence Mangan, John Mitchel (1859)
"Here is the gist of their mystified pages, Here is the wisdom we purchase with gold— Children of Light, leave the world to its mulishness, Things to their ..."

5. Anthologia Germanica =: German Anthology : a Series of Translations from the by James Clarence Mangan (1845)
"... Children of Light, leave the world to its mulishness, Things to their natures, and fools to their foolishness; Berries were Utter in forests of old. ..."

6. The Crime by Richard Grelling (1917)
"From the side of the German Government, and of their official defenders, this mulishness on the part of Austria cannot, however, be regarded as a reason for ..."

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