defiance
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Defiance \De*fi"ance\, n. [OF. defiance, desfiance, challenge,
fr. desfier to challenge, F. d['e]fier. See {Defy}.]
1. The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to
combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.
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A war without a just defiance made. --Dryden.
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Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down.
--Tennyson.
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2. A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition
to resist; contempt of opposition.
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He breathed defiance to my ears. --Shak.
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3. A casting aside; renunciation; rejection. [Obs.] "Defiance
to thy kindness." --Ford.
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{To bid defiance}, {To set at defiance}, to defy; to
disregard recklessly or contemptuously. --Locke.
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from
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Defiance, IA (city, FIPS 19585)
Location: 41.82545 N, 95.33926 W
Population (1990): 312 (129 housing units)
Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Defiance, MO
Zip code(s): 63341
Defiance, OH (city, FIPS 21308)
Location: 41.28117 N, 84.36190 W
Population (1990): 16768 (6475 housing units)
Area: 22.5 sq km (land), 1.3 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 43512
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Defiance, OH -- U.S. city in Ohio
Population (2000): 16465
Housing Units (2000): 7061
Land area (2000): 10.538139 sq. miles (27.293653 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.488358 sq. miles (1.264841 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.026497 sq. miles (28.558494 sq. km)
FIPS code: 21308
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.281891 N, 84.362856 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 43512
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Defiance, OH
Defiance
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U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Defiance, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 346
Housing Units (2000): 131
Land area (2000): 0.398193 sq. miles (1.031314 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.398193 sq. miles (1.031314 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19585
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.824740 N, 95.342056 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Defiance, IA
Defiance
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U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
Defiance -- U.S. County in Ohio
Population (2000): 39500
Housing Units (2000): 16040
Land area (2000): 411.158299 sq. miles (1064.895060 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.027456 sq. miles (7.841076 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 414.185755 sq. miles (1072.736136 sq. km)
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.304320 N, 84.462745 W
Headwords:
Defiance
Defiance, OH
Defiance County
Defiance County, OH
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "defiance":
audacity, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge,
combative reaction, command, complaint, contempt, contrariness,
contumaciousness, contumacy, counteraction, dare,
declaration of war, defi, defiance of authority, defy, demur,
despite, dispute, dissent, dissentience, effrontery, factiousness,
fractiousness, hardihood, headstrongness, impudence,
incorrigibility, indocility, indomitability, insolence,
insubordination, insuppressibility, insurgency, intractability,
intractableness, irrepressibility, muster, negativism,
noncooperation, objection, obstinacy, obstreperousness, opposition,
order, orneriness, passive resistance, perversity, protest,
reaction, rebelliousness, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy,
recalcitration, refractoriness, reluctance, remonstrance,
renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repulse, repulsion,
resistance, restiveness, revolt, shrewishness, stand, stubbornness,
stump, summons, temerity, uncontrollability, uncooperativeness,
ungovernability, unmalleability, unmanageability, unmoldableness,
unruliness, unsubmissiveness, untamableness, wildness,
withstanding
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