Adjective

(en adjective)

(archaic) Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition.

* 1592, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew :

Her onely fault, and that is faults enough, / Is, that she is intollerable curst, / And shrow'd, and froward , so beyond all measure, / That were my state farre worser then it is, / I would not wed her for a mine of Gold.

* 1826 , George Crabb

A froward child becomes an untoward youth, who turns a deaf ear to all the admonitions of an afflicted parent.

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Marked by a stubborn unwillingness to obey authority.

* 1908 , , "In Trust" in The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories :

His nimble fancy was recalcitrant to mental discipline.

* 1914 , , "Death at the Excelsior":

There was something in her manner so reminiscent of the school teacher reprimanding a recalcitrant pupil that Mr. Snyder's sense of humor came to his rescue.

* 1959 June 8, " Kenya: The Hola Scandal," Time :

Kenya's official "Cowan Plan," named after a colonial prison administrator, decreed that recalcitrant prisoners "be manhandled to the site and forced to carry out the task."

Unwilling to cooperate socially.

Difficult to deal with or to operate.

* 2003 , Robert G. Wetzel, Solar radiation as an ecosystem modulator'', in E. Walter Helbling, Horacio Zagarese (editors), ''UV Effects in Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems , page 13:

The more labile organic constituents of complex dissolved and particulate organic matter are commonly hydrolyzed and metabolized more rapidly than more recalcitrant organic compounds that are less accessible enzymatically.

* 2004 , Derek W. Urwin, Germany: From Geographical Expression to Regional Accommodation'', in (editor), ''Regions and Regionalism in Europe , page 47:

The Hansa had no legal status, independent finances or a common institutional framework, while the major weapon against recalcitrant members (or opponents) was the threat of embargo.

* 2006 , Janet Pierrehumbert, Syllable structure and word structure: a study of triconsonantal clusters in English'', in Patricia A. Keating (editor), ''Phonological Structure and Phonetic Form , page 179:

Particularly recalcitrant examples which made it impossible to remove actual words while maintaining the balance of the set were resolved by altering a consonant in the base word to create a new base form.

* 2010 , Brian J. Hall, John C. Hall, Sauer's Manual of Skin Diseases , page 251:

However, when a clinician is faced with a more recalcitrant case, it is important to remember to ask the patient whether psychological, social, or occupational stress might be contributing to the activity of the skin disorder.

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Not viable for an extended period; damaged by drying or freezing.