Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Disobedience; neglect of obedience.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Disobedience.

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  • noun obsolete disobedience

Etymologies

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Latin inoboedientia : compare French inobedience.

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Examples

  • Majestieis dewtie towartis [892] your pure subjectis, Godis chosin pepill, and quhat ye aucht to craif justlie of thame agane; for than we sould haif na occatioun to feir your Majestieis wraith and indignatioun, nor your Hienes suspitioun in our inobedience.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • They grieved nobody, neither God, by inobedience, ne their neighbours by untruth, ne by conceiving of any sin, and therefore it is said in the psalter: The innocents and righteous have joined them to me.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

  • The inobedience of Adam caused the first war, of that he had offended God, whereof followed the two other wars.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900

  • Paradise the first parents which slept in the death of sin, buried from the beginning of inobedience and gluttony, and now she that hath borne life to all human lineage, and was obedient to God the Father, and put away from her all ordure of sin, how shall not she be in heaven?

    The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900

  • On that same day Adam, the first man, was created and fell into original sin by inobedience, and was put out of paradise terrestrial.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

  • Mary, for like as Eve by the exhorting of the devil gave her consent to do the sin of inobedience to our perdition, right so by the greeting of the angel Gabriel and by exhorting, the glorious Virgin Mary gave her consenting to his message by obedience, to our salvation.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

  • And when the child was born the old man took the child in his arms, and came on a day of great feast into the church of Sixtus to a great multitude of people, and when his brethren wept, he said: Lo! see ye this child, this is the son of inobedience, therefore beware ye, brethren, for I have done this in mine old age, I pray you pray ye for me.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900

  • And when S. Benet knew it he took the vessel and cast it out of the window, and it was of glass, and it fell on a stone and brake not; then he reproved the cellarer of inobedience and of the little hope that he had in God; and after he went unto his prayers, and anon a great empty tun that was there was full of oil, insomuch that it ran over.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

  • Redemer to be very God and very man, because he was to underlie the punischment due for our transgressiouns, and to present himselfe in the presence of his Fathers Judgment, as in our persone, to suffer for our transgression and inobedience, [662] be death to overcome him that was author of death.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Of my sovereyns/gaf no fors at al wex obstynat/by inobedience

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

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