Defiance

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Defiance \De*fi"ance\, n. [OF. defiance, desfiance, challenge,
     fr. desfier to challenge, F. d['e]fier. See {Defy}.]
     1. The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to
        combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.
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              A war without a just defiance made.   --Dryden.
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              Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down.
                                                    --Tennyson.
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     2. A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition
        to resist; contempt of opposition.
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              He breathed defiance to my ears.      --Shak.
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     3. A casting aside; renunciation; rejection. [Obs.] "Defiance
        to thy kindness." --Ford.
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     {To bid defiance}, {To set at defiance}, to defy; to
        disregard recklessly or contemptuously. --Locke.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  defiance
       n 1: intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude [syn: {rebelliousness}]
       2: a hostile challenge
       3: a defiant act

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "defiance":
     audacity, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge,
     combative reaction, command, complaint, contempt, contrariness,
     contumaciousness, contumacy, counteraction, dare,
     declaration of war, defi, defiance of authority, defy, demur,
     despite, dispute, dissent, dissentience, effrontery, factiousness,
     fractiousness, hardihood, headstrongness, impudence,
     incorrigibility, indocility, indomitability, insolence,
     insubordination, insuppressibility, insurgency, intractability,
     intractableness, irrepressibility, muster, negativism,
     noncooperation, objection, obstinacy, obstreperousness, opposition,
     order, orneriness, passive resistance, perversity, protest,
     reaction, rebelliousness, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy,
     recalcitration, refractoriness, reluctance, remonstrance,
     renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repulse, repulsion,
     resistance, restiveness, revolt, shrewishness, stand, stubbornness,
     stump, summons, temerity, uncontrollability, uncooperativeness,
     ungovernability, unmalleability, unmanageability, unmoldableness,
     unruliness, unsubmissiveness, untamableness, wildness,
     withstanding
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Defiance, IA (city, FIPS 19585)
    Location: 41.82545 N, 95.33926 W
    Population (1990): 312 (129 housing units)
    Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Defiance, MO
    Zip code(s): 63341
  Defiance, OH (city, FIPS 21308)
    Location: 41.28117 N, 84.36190 W
    Population (1990): 16768 (6475 housing units)
    Area: 22.5 sq km (land), 1.3 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 43512

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Defiance -- U.S. County in Ohio
     Population (2000):    39500
     Housing Units (2000): 16040
     Land area (2000):     411.158299 sq. miles (1064.895060 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    3.027456 sq. miles (7.841076 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    414.185755 sq. miles (1072.736136 sq. km)
     Located within:       Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
     Location:             41.304320 N, 84.462745 W
     Headwords:
      Defiance
      Defiance, OH
      Defiance County
      Defiance County, OH
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Defiance, OH -- U.S. city in Ohio
     Population (2000):    16465
     Housing Units (2000): 7061
     Land area (2000):     10.538139 sq. miles (27.293653 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.488358 sq. miles (1.264841 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    11.026497 sq. miles (28.558494 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            21308
     Located within:       Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
     Location:             41.281891 N, 84.362856 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     43512
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Defiance, OH
      Defiance
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Defiance, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
     Population (2000):    346
     Housing Units (2000): 131
     Land area (2000):     0.398193 sq. miles (1.031314 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.398193 sq. miles (1.031314 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            19585
     Located within:       Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
     Location:             41.824740 N, 95.342056 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):    
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Defiance, IA
      Defiance