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disobedience

[ dis-uh-bee-dee-uhns ]

noun

  1. lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression.


disobedience

/ ˌdɪsəˈbiːdɪəns /

noun

  1. lack of obedience


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Word History and Origins

Origin of disobedience1

1350–1400; Middle English < Old French desobedience, equivalent to des- dis- 1 + obedience obedience

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Example Sentences

Saint Louis City police also spent $325,000 upgrading helmets, sticks and other civil disobedience equipment.

Visitors like Sun have never seen civil disobedience practiced in real life.

Shoppers from Mainland China arrived in droves, and gained front row seats to civil disobedience in action.

He laid the blame firmly on meddling by foreign powers sowing civil disobedience.

But all Americans practice libertarian civil disobedience already, on their IRS forms.

He stared at his men, astonished and impatient at this strange disobedience.

His disobedience is not as if that requirement were inconsistent with his natural powers, but as opposed by their tendency.

From the stories of Jonah and King Saul she brought forth some excellent lessons on disobedience.

Their resistance consisted of disobedience of the orders of the Government, even to the extent of suffering death at their hands.

A strong motive might induce her to disobey, but the disobedience in that case would be open.

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