disobedience
from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
DISOBEDIENCE. The want of submission to the orders of a superior.
2. In the army, disobedience is a misdemeanor.
3. For disobedience to parents, children may be punished; and
apprentices may be imprisoned for disobedience to the lawful commands of
their master. Vide Correction.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "disobedience":
abnegation, antipathy, averseness, aversion, backwardness,
contradiction, cursoriness, declension, declination, declinature,
declining, denial, deprivation, disagreement, disallowance,
disclaimer, disclamation, disinclination, disrelish, dissent,
distaste, foot-dragging, fractiousness, grudging consent,
grudgingness, holding back, indiscipline, indisposedness,
indisposition, indocility, insubordination, interregnum,
intractableness, irresponsibility, lack of enthusiasm,
lack of zeal, lawlessness, license, licentiousness, mutinousness,
mutiny, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no,
nolition, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonobservance,
obstinacy, opposition, perfunctoriness, power vacuum, rampant will,
recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recantation, refractoriness, refusal,
rejection, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repudiation,
repugnance, resistance, retention, slowness, stubbornness, sulk,
sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, thumbs-down, turndown,
unaccountability, uncontrol, unenthusiasm, unrestraint,
unwillingness, willfulness, withholding
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