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Definition of Renitence
1. n. The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance.
Definition of Renitence
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Renitence
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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