Indocile

Word INDOCILE
Character 8
Hyphenation in doc ile
Pronunciations /ɪnˈdɒsɪl/

Definitions and meanings of "Indocile"

What do we mean by indocile?

Resistant to authority or discipline; recalcitrant. adjective

Not teachable; not submissive to instruction or guidance; intractable.

Not teachable; indisposed to be taught, trained, or disciplined; not easily instructed or governed; dull; intractable. adjective

Unwilling to be taught or instructed; intractable or recalcitrant. adjective

Of persons adjective

Unwilling to be taught or instructed; intractable or recalcitrant.

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The word "indocile" in example sentences

While her ladyship declaimed, the clergyman's wandering eye confessed his absent mind; his thoughts travelling, perhaps, to accomplish a truce betwixt Saladin and Conrade of Mountserrat, unless they chanced to be occupied with some occurrences of that very day, so that the lady was obliged to recall her indocile auditor with the leading question, "You are well acquainted with Dryden, of course, Mr. Cargill?" ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

a truce betwixt Saladin and Conrade of Mountserrat, unless they chanced to be occupied with some occurrences of that very day, so that the lady was obliged to recall her indocile auditor with the leading question, ❋ Unknown (2008)

The bullet that pierced Alexis's heart was not a random bullet shot from a cop's gun to the body of an 'indocile' kid. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A feeling of sudden, proud self-confidence, an indocile wish to walk unmoved in spite of grim environments, plainly possessed him, and when he reached the wicket-gate he turned in without apparent effort. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But it was an indocile, a scornful, and a sarcastic face - the face of a man difficult to lead, and impossible to drive. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The vulgar of all ranks are invariably sensual and indocile; yet ❋ Unknown (2003)

Professor Paul Emanuel, to wit, never lost an opportunity of intimating his opinion that mine was rather a fiery and rash nature — adventurous, indocile, and audacious. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The cabmen of Paris form a distinct class, a separate society, composed of all sorts of elements -- a turbulent, indocile, rebellious set of men, always in revolt against their employers and against the law, which holds them with an iron and inflexible grasp. ❋ Various (N/A)

Mount Pruno, till, finding disciples there no less indocile to the severity of his discipline than the former, he was determined to pursue himself that rigorous plan of life which he had hitherto unsuccessfully proposed to others. ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

The present existence of the Church, after it has encountered and outlived all varieties of opposition, is in itself a proof which even its enemies, if they were not stupid and indocile learners, might ere this have discovered, that the eternal God is its refuge, and that the Highest will establish it for ever. ❋ Knowles King (N/A)

And negroes are not indocile; nor is it hard even in a few conversations and lectures, to give them all necessary instructions in the elements of our religion, and in my humble opinion it is injudicious to attempt to instruct them or Indians in its mysterious doctrines. ❋ Unknown (1924)

The latter, though delicate and frail in physique, early exhibited an exuberant nature, a lively but indocile intelligence, a brilliant but highly impressionable imagination, and a will resolute to obstinacy and vehement to excess. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Others maintained that these bondmen were so ignorant and indocile, so far gone in their wickedness, so confirmed in their habit of evil ways, that it was vain to undertake to teach them such knowledge. ❋ Carter Godwin Woodson (1912)

He had a most indocile temperament, rebellious to tradition, in no sense Roman. ❋ Guglielmo Ferrero (1906)

They were indocile and turbulent; not only disturbing by their wild pranks the peace of the city, but interrupting by their noisy behavior and inattention the master's discourses and lectures. ❋ Unknown (1906)

And again, for it was all the affair of the veriest moment, the slaves rushed once more on their indocile victim. ❋ William Stearns Davis (1903)

Death, too, is a heroic virtue; and to the keeping of us all is death committed: death, submissive in the indocile, modest in the fatuous, several in the vulgar, secret in the familiar. ❋ Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1884)

When Bossuet tried to educate his indocile pupil the Dauphin, he taught him how God is above man, as man is above the brute. ❋ Edward Dowden (1878)

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