Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack of subjection; a state of disobedience to authority or control.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lack of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Lack of
subjection orobedience .
Etymologies
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in- + subjection
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Examples
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Augustus, notwithstanding his vapoury insubjection, visited his father and the partners in the bank, leaving his bride in snug lodgings at a respectable distance from all.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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But truly, the rebellion and insubjection against the truth of God is more generally practised, even by the multitude of men though in an unfree, hidden way, how few do believe their own desperate wickedness, though God hath testified it of man?
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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