disobedience
Roget category 742
5. Words relating to the voluntary powers› 5.6. General intersocial volition
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Disobedience
noun
disobedience,
insubordination,
contumacy —
infraction,
infringement —
violation,
noncompliance —
nonobservance
etc.
773.
revolt,
rebellion,
mutiny,
outbreak,
rising,
uprising,
insurrection,
emeute [Fr.] —
riot,
tumult
etc.
(disorder)
59 —
strike
etc.
(resistance)
719 —
barring out —
defiance
etc.
715.
mutinousness
etc.
adj. —
mutineering† —
sedition,
treason —
high treason,
petty treason,
misprision of treason —
premunire [Lat.] —
lese majeste [Fr.] —
violation of law
etc.
964 —
defection,
secession.
insurgent,
mutineer,
rebel,
revolter,
revolutionary,
rioter,
traitor,
quisling,
carbonaro†,
sansculottes [Fr.],
red republican,
bonnet rouge,
communist,
Fenian,
frondeur —
seceder,
secessionist,
runagate,
renegade,
brawler,
anarchist,
demagogue —
Spartacus,
Masaniello,
Wat Tyler,
Jack Cade —
ringleader.
verb
disobey,
violate,
infringe —
shirk —
set at defiance
etc.
(defy)
715 —
set authority at naught,
run riot,
fly in the face of —
take the law into one's own hands —
kick over the traces.
turn restive,
run restive —
champ the bit —
strike
etc.
(resist)
719 —
rise,
rise in arms —
secede —
mutiny,
rebel.
adjective
disobedient —
uncomplying,
uncompliant —
unsubmissive†,
unruly,
ungovernable —
breachy†,
insubordinate,
impatient of control,
incorrigible —
restiff†,
restive —
refractory,
contumacious,
recusant
etc.
(refuse)
764 —
recalcitrant —
resisting
etc.
719 —
lawless,
mutinous,
seditions,
insurgent,
riotous.
unobeyed† —
unbidden.
phrase
seditiosissimus quisque ignavus [Lat.]
[Tacitus];
unthread the rude eye of rebellion"
[King John].
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