Usage History of 'recalcitrant'

The following chart shows how frequently 'recalcitrant' appeared in printed materials over time. For example, the word 'recalcitrant' occurred 2 times in books in 1644 and 39,633 times in 2008. From 1644 to 2008, the word 'recalcitrant' was used a total of 1,152,612 times in books scanned by Google. See Reference: Google Ngram project.

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