disobedience

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Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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Definition

  1. noun the failure to obey
  2. noun the trait of being unwilling to obey

Etymology

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

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Synonyms

noncompliance

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