renitent

From Latin renītēns, present participle of renītor (“resist, struggle”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛnɪtənt/

renitent (comparative more renitent, superlative most renitent)

1. resistant to physical pressure; unyielding
   • 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter VI, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 38:

     […] I could see the renitent surface under my feet and the mossy walls about me […]

2. resistant to compulsion; recalcitrant

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• IPA^(key): [ʁeniˈtɛnt]

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renitent (strong nominative masculine singular renitenter, comparative renitenter, superlative am renitentesten)

1. renitent
   • 2009, Informationsstelle Militarisierung, Invitation to the IMI congress in 2009:

     Westliche Sicherheits- und Militärstrategien […] fordern […] die weltweite und kontinuierliche Interventionsfähigkeit sowohl gegen feindliche Armeen als auch gegen renitente Bevölkerungsgruppen.

     Western security and military strategies […] demand […] the worldwide and continuous ability to intervene, against enemy armies as well as against renitent citizen groups.

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renitent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of reniteō

Borrowed from French renitent.

renitent m or n (feminine singular renitentă, masculine plural renitenți, feminine and neuter plural renitente)

1. renitent