Indiscipline

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Lack of discipline. uncountable, usually

    "[O]ur delay, and other things which happened, were proofs—and I was told not uncommon ones—of that carelessness, unreadiness, and general indiscipline of French arrangements, which has helped to bring about, since then, an utter ruin."

  2. 2
    the trait of lacking discipline wordnet

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"[O]ur delay, and other things which happened, were proofs—and I was told not uncommon ones—of that carelessness, unreadiness, and general indiscipline of French arrangements, which has helped to bring about, since then, an utter ruin."

Etymology

From French indiscipline, from Middle French [Term?], from Late Latin indisciplina.

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