disobedience

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    the failure to obey
    the trait of being unwilling to obey

Word Origin

disobedience (n.)
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).

Antonym

Example

1. Constitutional significance of civil disobedience and its chinese context .
2. Civil disobedience will land you in jail .
3. Every parent knows that delayed obedience is really disobedience .
4. A general right to civil disobedience .
5. I 'm very annoyed at your disobedience .

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