renitency

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English

Noun

renitency (usually uncountable, plural renitencies)

  1. Alternative form of renitence
    • 1800, Erasmus Darwin, Phytologia:
      We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibres of plants.