| 单词 | civil disobedience |
| 释义 | > as lemmascivil disobedience civil disobedience n. rebellion of the populace against a governing power; (in later use) spec. refusal to obey the laws, commands, etc., of a government or authority as part of an organized, non-violent political protest or campaign. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > civil disobedience civil disobedience1579 1579 R. Robinson Vineyarde of Vertue xiii. f. 25 That God may thereby be gloryfied, and the common wealth fortified against assaults of the deuil, inuasions of forraine enemyes against ciuil disobedyence and discorde. 1644 R. Williams Blovdy Tenent xlix. 79 Caesar (as a civill supreme Magistrate) ought to defend Paul from Civill violence, and slanderous accusations about sedition, mutiny, civill disobedience. 1716 ‘P. Freeman’ Mock Patriots 18 The Inferior clerical Tools..judicially hardened into an Habituality of Civil Disobedience also, so as..to preach Faction instead of Faith, and Rebellion instead of Peace. 1866 in H. D. Thoreau Yankee in Canada 123 (heading) Civil disobedience [1849 titile orig. appears as ‘Resistance to Civil Government’.]. 1922 Ann. Reg. 1921 275 Mr. Gandhi announced that he reserved the right to continue..preparations for civil disobedience. 2002 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 30 Mar. 21 It was barely three years since a black worker named Rosa Parks had refused to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama—a simple act of civil disobedience. < as lemmas |
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