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disobedience

Roget category 742

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
5.6. General intersocial volition
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#742. Disobedience

noun

disobedience, insubordination, contumacyinfraction, infringementviolation, noncompliancenonobservance etc. 773.
revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute [Fr.]riot, tumult etc. (disorder) 59strike etc. (resistance) 719barring outdefiance etc. 715.
mutinousness etc. adj. — mutineeringsedition, treasonhigh treason, petty treason, misprision of treasonpremunire [Lat.]lese majeste [Fr.]violation of law etc. 964defection, secession.
insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes [Fr.], red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeurseceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogueSpartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Caderingleader.

verb

disobey, violate, infringeshirkset at defiance etc. (defy) 715set authority at naught, run riot, fly in the face oftake the law into one's own handskick over the traces.
turn restive, run restivechamp the bit strike etc. (resist) 719rise, rise in armssecedemutiny, rebel.

adjective

disobedientuncomplying, uncompliantunsubmissive, unruly, ungovernablebreachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigiblerestiff, restiverefractory, contumacious, recusant etc. (refuse) 764recalcitrantresisting etc. 719lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous.
unobeyedunbidden.

phrase

seditiosissimus quisque ignavus [Lat.] [Tacitus]; unthread the rude eye of rebellion" [King John].

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