disobediencen.
/dɪsəʊˈbiːdɪəns/ a. The fact or condition of being disobedient; the withholding of obedience; neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command by omitting to conform to it, or of a prohibition by acting in defiance of it; an instance of this.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > disobedience
unhersomenesseOE
inobediencec1230
unobeisancea1382
inobeisance1382
unobediencec1384
disobeisance1393
disobedience?a1400
non-obeisance1447
non-observance1453
inobediency?a1475
disobediency1580
non-obedience1582
recusancy1597
tergiversation1676
?a1400 Arthur 230 To vnderfang oure ordynaunce; For þy dysobediaunce.
c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Legend St. Austin (Harl. 2255) l. 239 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 200 For disobedience Disclaundrid is perpetually my name.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xliv. xiv Adam..And Eve..the worlde dampned..By disobedience.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. i. 120 I say they norisht disobedience . View more context for this quotation
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 107 Our wilfull disobediences.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. i. 10 It was impossible for cowardice or disobedience to escape the severest punishment.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 412 He who obeys the law will never know the fatal consequences of disobedience.
b. transferred. Non-compliance with a law of nature, an influence, or the like.
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1712 R. Blackmore Creation ii. 81 If Planetary Orbs the Sun obey, Why should the Moon disown his Sov'raign sway?..This Disobedience of the Moon [etc.].
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