disobedience
pronunciation
How to pronounce disobedience in British English: UK [ˌdɪsəˈbi:diəns]
How to pronounce disobedience in American English: US [ˌdɪsəˈbidiəns]
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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 .