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noun
Idioms1.
a daring or bold resistance to authority or to any opposing force.
2.
open disregard; contempt (often followed by of): defiance of danger; His refusal amounted to defiance.
3.
a challenge to meet in combat or in a contest.
4.
bid defiance to, to offer resistance; defy.
5.
in defiance of, in spite of; notwithstanding: There was a splendid audience in defiance of the rainstorm.
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Bid defiance to
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defiance
c.1300, from O.Fr. defiance "challenge," from defiant, prp. of defier (see defy).
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