resistance (n.)
- alienation
- antagonism
- antibody
- antigen
- antipathy
- arrest
- autism
- aversion
- backlash
- backwardness
- block
- blockage
- blocking
- bushwhacker
- callosity
- callousness
- censorship
- challenge
- check
- closure
- cohesiveness
- collision
- compensation
- conflict
- confutation
- constriction
- contention
- contradiction
- contrariety
- contravention
- contumacy
- counteraction
- cramp
- crankiness
- crosscurrent
- crossing
- crotchetiness
- defence
- defense
- defiance
- delay
- denial
- density
- detainment
- detention
- disagreement
- disinclination
- disobedience
- displacement
- dissent
- dissociation
- distaste
- drag
- durability
- escape
- escapism
- fantasy
- fixation
- flight
- fractiousness
- friction
- guard
- guerrilla
- hardiness
- hardness
- hindrance
- holdup
- immunity
- immunization
- impedance
- impediment
- impenetrability
- indisposition
- indomitability
- induration
- inhibition
- interference
- interruption
- intractability
- intractableness
- intransigence
- irregular
- irrepressibility
- isolation
- kick
- lastingness
- let
- maquis
- maquisard
- negation
- negativism
- nonconformity
- obduracy
- obstinacy
- obstreperousness
- obstruction
- obstructionism
- occlusion
- ohm
- ohmage
- opposition
- overcompensation
- partisan
- perverseness
- projection
- protection
- rationalization
- reactance
- reaction
- rebelliousness
- rebuttal
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recoil
- refractoriness
- refusal
- rejection
- reluctance
- reluctivity
- repercussion
- repression
- repugnance
- restiveness
- restraint
- restriction
- retardation
- revolt
- ropiness
- self-defense
- self-preservation
- self-protection
- setback
- shrewishness
- slowness
- solidity
- squeeze
- stamina
- stiffness
- stranglehold
- strength
- stricture
- stubbornness
- sublimation
- substitution
- sulk
- sulkiness
- sullenness
- suppression
- tenacity
- toughness
- traversal
- unbreakableness
- undercurrent
- underground
- unmalleability
- unruliness
- unwillingness
- viscidity
- vitality
- ward
- wildness
- withdrawal
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
