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Disobedience   /dˌɪsəbˈidiəns/  /dˌɪsoʊbˈidiəns/   Listen
Disobedience

noun
1.
The failure to obey.  Synonym: noncompliance.
2.
The trait of being unwilling to obey.



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"Disobedience" Quotes from Famous Books



... warder in Berrima Gaol,' says he, 'about seven year ago? Ah! now we're coming to it. You don't remember getting Daniel Moran—a prisoner serving a long sentence there—seven days' solitary on bread and water for what you called disobedience of orders ...
— Robbery Under Arms • Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood

... forward, I did so aft, and presenting a pistol in each hand, as sternly as I could, while struggling to suppress my laughter at Bob's exploit, ordered the fishermen to surrender, and to keep perfect silence, upon pain of instant death as the penalty of disobedience. ...
— Under the Meteor Flag - Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War • Harry Collingwood

... practical repentance, which reforms the heart and enables 19:24 man to do the will of wisdom. Those who cannot dem- onstrate, at least in part, the divine Principle of the teach- ings and practice of our Master have no part in God. If 19:27 living in disobedience to Him, we ought to feel no secur- ity, ...
— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy

... love his own." The apostle says, "Be not conformed to this world;" and to the Gentiles he writes, "In time past ye walked according to the course of this world, the spirit which now worketh in the children of disobedience." In these verses, a tone, a temper, a spirit is spoken of. There are two things—the Church and the World—two spirits pervading different bodies of men, brought before us in these verses—those called the Spirit-born, and those called the World, ...
— Sermons Preached at Brighton - Third Series • Frederick W. Robertson

... in her disobedience against her own family, and then ye let a drunken rascal steal her from me to crown our disgrace,' he went on fiercely. Fer once in my life I stood silent, too ashamed to answer him, while he heaped words upon me that would be unfit to repeat in decent company. He was fair torn with ...
— Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road • R. Henry Mainer


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