Meaning of DISOBEDIENCE
| Pronunciation: | | `disu'beedeeuns
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- [n] the failure to obey
- [n] the trait of being unwilling to obey
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| | Synonyms: | | noncompliance |
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| | Antonyms: | | abidance, compliance, conformation, conformity, obedience, obedience, obeisance | | |
| | See Also: | | badness, contempt, contumacy, insubordination, intractability, intractableness, mischievousness, naughtiness, rebelliousness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis`o*be"di*ence\, n.
Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or
prohibition.
He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open
disobedience. --Tillotson.
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| | Related Terms: | | abnegation, antipathy, averseness, aversion, backwardness, contradiction, cursoriness, declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial, deprivation, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disinclination, disrelish, dissent, distaste, foot-dragging, fractiousness, grudging consent, grudgingness, holding back, indiscipline, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, insubordination, interregnum, intractableness, irresponsibility, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, lawlessness, license, licentiousness, mutinousness, mutiny, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no, nolition, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonobservance, obstinacy, opposition, perfunctoriness, power vacuum, rampant will, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recantation, refractoriness, refusal, rejection, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repudiation, repugnance, resistance, retention, slowness, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, thumbs-down, turndown, unaccountability, uncontrol, unenthusiasm, unrestraint, unwillingness, willfulness, withholding |
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