disobedience

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Refusal to obey.

   The teacher complained of the child's disobedience.

2. 2
   noun

   the failure to obey

3. 3
   noun

   the trait of being unwilling to obey

From Middle English disobedience, dysobediaunce, from Old French desobedience. By surface analysis, dis- + obedience. Displaced native Old English unhīersumnes.

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