disobedience Definition
dis·obedi·ence (dis′ō bē′dē əns, -ə bē′-)
disobedience Synonyms
disobedience
n.
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.
- punish: And they will be ready to punish all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
- involve: And on the third day a mass rally, involving civil disobedience, at the Embassy - nine arrested.
- practice: To practice civil disobedience is not a choice to be made lightly.
- commit: But when and how is it right to commit civil disobedience?
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.
- wilful: It is not wilful disobedience - it is just that people get biased in terms of making money.
- civil: Only mass civil disobedience is going to get rid of the TV License.
- intelligent: Intelligent disobedience does mean being different - with specific purposes.
- mass: There are times of mass disobedience among people who claim to be God's people [ witness the Church of England at present ] .
- electronic: In an attempt to put the theory of electronic civil disobedience into practice he moved to New York City in 1991.
Modifies a noun
- campaign: Some political figures demanded a massive civil disobedience campaign during the war.
- action: It must have been one of the biggest civil disobedience actions in British labor history.
- protest: If Brian is evicted there will be civil disobedience protests ( involving the risk of arrest ) in Parliament Square.
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.
- man: As the disobedience of one man made us all sinners, by the obedience of one man we were all made righteous.
- law: The implication is that disobedience of the law meant things would not go well!
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