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renitentia

renitentia [LL], (act of) being resistant or unwilling (to do something, w. gen.). b resistance, opposition. c1242 ne ‥ vestri muneris plenitudo ‥ dilatione et quasi quadam ~ia tribuendi muneris minoretur Gros. Ep. 100.  b est autem triplex resistencia ‥ secunda est activa ~ia mobilis, suo agenti contrario, et taliter non resistit alia pars celi suo motori, sed sublunaria, habencia motores illis contrarios, qui movendo moventur Wycl. Ente Praed. 13g.

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