Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disobedient.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Not obedient; disobedient.
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- adjective obsolete Not
obedient ;disobedient .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And he that will not obey to him that hath the cure over him when he enseigneth and teacheth him good that he is bound to do, he sinneth grievously and is inobedient, which is deadly sin.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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One park visitor anxious to leave with his inobedient dog in tow on a leash as the dog jumped in the air hittingChesterwith his paw, knocking him to the ground.
Animal Park (Part I) 2010
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Thou hast compelled me to forespeak, as well deliverance to the afflicted, as destruction to certain inobedient, the performance whereof, not I alone, but the very blind world has already seen.
John Knox A. Taylor Innes
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Those who are too subservient to the form weaken their poetic thought; those who, like Wordsworth often, are inobedient to the form, produce a poem which is imperfect because it is neither a sonnet nor not a sonnet.
The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum
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Cardinall, the Earlis Ergyle, Huntely, Bothwell, the Bischoppis and thare bandis; and thairefter thei passed to Striveling, and tooke with thame bayth the Quenis, the Mother and the Dowghter, [287] and threatned the depositioun of the said Governour, as inobedient to thare Haly
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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And like as they were inobedient to their superior, right so their members began to move against their superior, which is reason, and they felt their first moving in their privy members, and thereof they were ashamed.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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Then, fair sister, I doubt that if we abide in virginity that we shall make the word of God vain, and be also despising and inobedient, by which we shall fall into a grievous judgment, where we shall have no hope of reward, but shall run in great torment and pain.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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To thee he hath been inobedient, to me he hath been obedient.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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Bot contrariwise the stubburne, inobedient, cruell oppressours, filthie personis, idolaters, and all such sortes of unfaithfull, sal be cast in the dungeoun of utter darkenesse, where their worme sall not die, nether zit their fyre sall bee extinguished.
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` ` Ye are a dauring villain, Rob, '' answered the Bailie; ` ` and ye will be hanged, that will be seen and heard tell o '; but I'se ne'er be the ill bird and foul my nest, set apart strong necessity and the skreigh of duty, which no man should hear and be inobedient.
Rob Roy 1887
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