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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

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.

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!