† disobediencyn.
Obsolete.
The quality of being disobedient.
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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
1580 Let. Privy Council 18 June (modernized text) in J. Strype Hist. Edmund Grindal (1710) ii. xi. 254 You might..have..corrected the Disobediency of such as therein should have presumed to offend.
1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) vii. lvii. 188 The out-let Will of disobediencie [1601 disobedience].
1614 R. Tailor Hog hath lost his Pearl iii, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) XI. 464 In punishing my disobediency.
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