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disobedience definition

dis·obedi·ence (dis′ō bē′dē əns, -ə bē′-)

noun

refusal to obey; failure to follow rules, commands, etc.; insubordination

Etymology: ME < OFr desobedience: see dis- & obedience

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disobedience Synonyms

disobedience

n.

insubordination, defiance, insurgence, disregard, violation, noncompliance, lack of obedience, rebelliousness, mutiny, revolt, nonobservance, strike, infringement, transgression, waywardness, naughtiness, stubbornness, refractoriness, recalcitrance, infraction, insubmission, intractableness, unruliness, dereliction, sedition, rebellion, sabotage, riot; see also revolution 2.


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disobedience Usage Examples

Preposition: that

  • progress: It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Converse of object

  • include: We will use and build on existing strategies, including civil disobedience, to resist globalization and to assert our rights.

Adjective modifier

  • non-violent: For men like Currie the party's rejection of his call for a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience had been a grave error.

Modifies a noun

  • campaign: Some political figures demanded a massive civil disobedience campaign during the war.

Noun used with modifier

  • man's: For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Possessives

  • man: This remedy for sin is no artifice, no afterthought in the light of the tragedy of man's disobedience.

Preposition: of

  • order: His Honor said there must be disobedience of a reasonable order to justify the dismissal of the men.
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It is alarming and odious to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious MiddleTemple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the vice-regal palace, while he is still conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King- Emperor.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer

May the hard hand of a vexatious need Oppress and grind you; till at last you find The curse of disobedience all your portion.

-Otway,Thomas

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