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Disobedience

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Refusal to obey. countable, uncountable

    "The teacher complained of the child's disobedience."

  2. 2
    the failure to obey wordnet
  3. 3
    the trait of being unwilling to obey wordnet

Etymology

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

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