0 the quality of being determined not to do what other people, especially people in authority, want or expect to be done:
She was maddened by his recalcitrance.
a child's recalcitrance in the face of parental attempts at correction
If enlightened local authority in planning and design is to occur, it will happen when architects overcome their recalcitrance to enter the local fray.
The occurrence of seed recalcitrance does appear to be far more common among amaryllid species than has been reported for other families.
The results described here certainly call for an appraisal of the costs and benefits of seed recalcitrance for species such as the amaryllids.
After civil service reform, postal bureaucrats could no longer be fired for their program recalcitrance.
Advances in the understanding of mechanisms of recalcitrance are hindered by the inherent nature of developmental, structural and biochemical differences among recalcitrant seeds.
