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- adjective Not
rebellious ; free ofrebellion
Etymologies
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Examples
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After the meetings, wed hang out in the Kingdom Hall parking lot, not smoking, and brag about how totally unrebellious we were.
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed Kyria Abrahams 2009
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Hitherto unrebellious, Julian now began to rebel over hair and clothes and refused to discipline himself regarding school work.
Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
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Wounded at Verdun can go on weaving his fabrics I pray that I may carry whatever burden may be mine with the unrebellious spirit.
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She was by nature a little lady, dainty in her ways, industrious, unrebellious, always ready to help the other girls about their clothes, and a model of a confidant.
Told in a French Garden August, 1914 Mildred Aldrich 1890
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Drifts of thin pale upper-cloud leaned down ladders, pure as virgin silver, for her to climb to her highest seat on the unrebellious half-circle of heaven.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Drifts of thin pale upper-cloud leaned down ladders, pure as virgin silver, for her to climb to her highest seat on the unrebellious half-circle of heaven.
Farina George Meredith 1868
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Drifts of thin pale upper-cloud leaned down ladders, pure as virgin silver, for her to climb to her highest seat on the unrebellious half-circle of heaven.
Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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To fling away her secret, to conform, to be unrebellious, uncritical, submissive, became an impatient desire; and the task did not appear so difficult since Miss Dale's arrival.
The Egoist George Meredith 1868
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To fling away her secret, to conform, to be unrebellious, uncritical, submissive, became an impatient desire; and the task did not appear so difficult since Miss Dale's arrival.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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They have subdued the tribes of Hwâi, And brought them to an unrebellious submission.
The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 James Legge 1856
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