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disobedience|dɪsəʊˈbiːdɪəns|
Also 5 dys-, -aunce.
[a. OF. desobedience (in Godef.); cf. It. disubbidienza, Sp. desobediencia: a Romanic formation for L. inobēdientia, f. dis- 4 + L. obēdientia obedience.]
The fact or condition of being disobedient; the withholding of obedience; neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command by omitting to conform to it, or of a prohibition by acting in defiance of it; an instance of this.
a1400Arthur 230 To vnderfang oure ordynaunce; For þy dysobediaunce. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems 143 (Mätz.) For disobedience Disclaundrid is perpetually my name. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xliv. xiv, Adam..And Eve..the worlde dampned..By disobedience. 1607Shakes. Cor. iii. i. 117, I say they norisht disobedience. 1644Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 107 Our wilfull disobediences. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. i. (1846) I. 11 It was impossible for cowardice or disobedience to escape the severest punishment. 1875Jowett Plato V. 412 He who obeys the law will never know the fatal consequences of disobedience.
b. transf. Non-compliance with a law of nature, an influence, or the like.
a1729Blackmore (J.), If planetary orbs the sun obey, Why should the moon disown his sovereign sway?..This disobedience of the moon, etc. |