Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of submission; disobedience; insubordination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lack of submission; disobedience; noncompliance.
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- noun Lack of
submission ;disobedience .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Philosophy alone possesses this secret, because it alone perceives that all our political, civil, and even domestic broils grow out of this identical warfare between men's religions and scientific convictions, -- have no other source than that persistent insubmission which the interests of force, as represented by priesthoods and governments, are under to the interests of freedom, represented by society.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various
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She will perceive at once that the question is settled -- settled irrevocably -- and especially that it is entirely beyond the power of any demonstrations of insubmission or rebellion that she can make to change it.
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Thus multitudes of children are taught to disobey, and trained to habits of insubmission and insubordination, by the means most effectually adapted to that end.
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The first principle is that the mother should so regulate her management of her child, that he should _never_ gain any desired end by any act of insubmission, but _always_ incur some small trouble, inconvenience, or privation, by disobeying or neglecting to obey his mother's command.
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Robert, of course, succeeded his brother, and then, with the characteristic inconsistency of selfishness and ambition, he employed all the power of his realm in helping the King of France to subdue his younger brother, who was evincing the same spirit of seditiousness and insubmission that he had himself displayed.
William the Conqueror Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841
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Then, if she observes any expression of discontent or insubmission in
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On the one side there were the slumlords, latifundistas, and slaveowners, and on the other side there was popular struggle, in the form of slave revolts, insubmission, graffiti (!), in addition to the formal political channels (the people's tribune and consul, etc.).
wingolog Andy Wingo 2010
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On the one side there were the slumlords, latifundistas, and slaveowners, and on the other side there was popular struggle, in the form of slave revolts, insubmission, graffiti (!), in addition to the formal political channels (the people's tribune and consul, etc.).
wingolog Andy Wingo 2010
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On the one side there were the slumlords, latifundistas, and slaveowners, and on the other side there was popular struggle, in the form of slave revolts, insubmission, graffiti (!), in addition to the formal political channels (the people's tribune and consul, etc.).
wingolog Andy Wingo 2010
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On the one side there were the slumlords, latifundistas, and slaveowners, and on the other side there was popular struggle, in the form of slave revolts, insubmission, graffiti (!), in addition to the formal political channels (the people's tribune and consul, etc.).
Planet GNOME Andy Wingo 2010
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