Disobedience

5 definitions found

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

  Disobedience \Dis`o*be"di*ence\, n.
     Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or
     prohibition.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open


           disobedience.                            --Tillotson.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disobedience
       n 1: the failure to obey [syn: {noncompliance}] [ant: {conformity},
             {obedience}]
       2: the trait of being unwilling to obey [ant: {obedience}]

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

  85 Moby Thesaurus words for "disobedience":
     abnegation, antipathy, averseness, aversion, backwardness,
     contradiction, cursoriness, declension, declination, declinature,
     declining, denial, deprivation, disagreement, disallowance,
     disclaimer, disclamation, disinclination, disrelish, dissent,
     distaste, foot-dragging, fractiousness, grudging consent,
     grudgingness, holding back, indiscipline, indisposedness,
     indisposition, indocility, insubordination, interregnum,
     intractableness, irresponsibility, lack of enthusiasm,
     lack of zeal, lawlessness, license, licentiousness, mutinousness,
     mutiny, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no,
     nolition, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonobservance,
     obstinacy, opposition, perfunctoriness, power vacuum, rampant will,
     recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recantation, refractoriness, refusal,
     rejection, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repudiation,
     repugnance, resistance, retention, slowness, stubbornness, sulk,
     sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, thumbs-down, turndown,
     unaccountability, uncontrol, unenthusiasm, unrestraint,
     unwillingness, willfulness, withholding
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DISOBEDIENCE. The want of submission to the orders of a superior. 
       2. In the army, disobedience is a misdemeanor. 
       3. For disobedience to parents, children may be punished; and 
  apprentices may be imprisoned for disobedience to the lawful commands of 
  their master. Vide Correction. 
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  DISOBEDIENCE, n.  The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.