refractious
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]refractious (comparative more refractious, superlative most refractious)
- (archaic) refractory
- 1900, The Rosary Magazine, volume 16, page 366:
- Another example of brutal disregard of the most common promptings of nature, is that of a refractious son who was so incorrigible that his father condemned him to death.