disobedience

[ dis-uh-bee-dee-uh ns ]

/ ˌdɪs əˈbi di əns /

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noun

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

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Origin of disobedience

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

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Examples from the Web for disobedience

Disobedience of the rules is a mainstay of nonviolent resistance.
Love Trumped Rules for Fired Methodist Rev. Frank Schaefer|Gene Robinson|December 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Or will it intimidate the country into greater obedience, fearful that disobedience will provoke a whirlwind?
After Beirut Bombing of Wissan al-Hassan, a Wary Calm in Lebanon|Jamie Dettmer|October 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST
So I was brought up before a military tribunal for disobedience.
‘Soldaten: Secret WWII Transcripts of German POWs’ by Soenke Neitzel & Harald Welzer|Sönke Neitzel, Harald Welzer|September 24, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The security forces also attacked a local mosque, which they believed was encouraging the disobedience.
Libya's Muammar Gaddafi Tried to Execute Me|Fadel Lamen|March 1, 2011|DAILY BEAST

Only days later, however, they maimed her in retribution for her disobedience.
An Unspeakable Crime|Gayle Tzemach Lemmon|December 28, 2009|DAILY BEAST
It commands with absolute lordship, but it can discipline for disobedience only by slow and formal judicial process.
Congressional Government|Woodrow Wilson
Mrs. Avery received one whipping, with a hair brush, for disobedience; this was given to her by the mistress.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 1|Work Projects Administration
The laity seized the opportunity to rise against the clerical order, and to excuse themselves for disobedience to the Church.
Freaks of Fanaticism|Sabine Baring-Gould
Jericho is taken, but at Ai defeat is experienced, on account of disobedience.
Training the Teacher|A. F. Schauffler
Then you must have made a false confession: you are at all events guilty of disobedience?
The Memoires of Casanova, Complete|Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

British Dictionary definitions for disobedience

disobedience

/ (ˌdɪsəˈbiːdɪəns) /

noun

lack of obedience

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Word Origin and History for disobedience

disobedience

c.1400, from Old French desobedience, from Vulgar Latin *disobedientia (replacing Latin inobedientia) from Latin dis- (see dis-) + obedientia (see obedience). The English word replaced earlier desobeissance in this sense, and inobedience (c.1200).

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