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disobediency

disobediency is the obsolete form of disobedience.

Meaning of disobedience

Noun

disobedience (countable and uncountable, plural disobediences)

  1. Refusal to obey.
    • The teacher complained of the child's disobedience.
    Synonyms:
    contumacy, rebellion

Forms of disobediency

pluraldisobediencies

Origin of disobediency

From dis- + obediency.

Questions about disobediency

What is disobediency the obsolete form of?
Disobediency is the obsolete form of disobedience.

Words near disobediency in the dictionary

  1. disnominates
  2. disnominating
  3. disobedience
  4. disobediences
  5. disobediencies
  6. disobediency
  7. disobedient
  8. disobediently
  9. disobedients
  10. disobeisance
  11. disobeisances

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disobediency (page history and authors); disobedience (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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