Unyieldingness

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1613. Daniel, Coll. Hist. Eng., III. 160. Vpon … the vnyeeldingnesse of King Malcolm,… nothing was effected.

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1617. Hieron, Wks., II. 369. That phrase of a stony heart, a fit terme to note out the stiffenesse and sturdinesse, and vn-yeeldingnesse thereof.

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a. 1843. Encycl. Metrop. (1845), VII. 263/2. An unyieldingness being imparted to the mass.

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1850. L. Hunt, Autobiog., II. xi. 53. His generalship … came to nothing before the unyieldingness of English, and the advent of Prussian soldiers.

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