renitent
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹɛnɪtənt/
Adjective
renitent (comparative more renitent, superlative most renitent)
- 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 […]
- resistant to compulsion; recalcitrant
German
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ʁeniˈtɛnt]
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Adjective
renitent (strong nominative masculine singular renitenter, comparative renitenter, superlative am renitentesten)
- 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.
Declension
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Further reading
- “renitent” in Duden online
Latin
Romanian
Adjective
renitent m or n (feminine singular renitentă, masculine plural renitenți, feminine and neuter plural renitente)
Declension
Declension of renitent
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative | indefinite | renitent | renitentă | renitenți | renitente | ||
definite | renitentul | renitenta | renitenții | renitentele | |||
genitive/ dative | indefinite | renitent | renitente | renitenți | renitente | ||
definite | renitentului | renitentei | renitenților | renitentelor |
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