Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being defiant.
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- noun The state or quality of being
defiant .
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Examples
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"The business was established before I became connected with it, sir; nor is it for you to institute an inquiry of that kind," he answered, not raising his voice, but speaking with quick defiantness.
Middlemarch 1871
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"The business was established before I became connected with it, sir; nor is it for you to institute an inquiry of that kind," he answered,. not raising his voice, but speaking with quick defiantness.
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"The business was established before I became connected with it, sir; nor is it for you to institute an inquiry of that kind," he answered, not raising his voice, but speaking with quick defiantness.
Middlemarch George Eliot 1849
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