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unobedient

unobedient adjective: disobedient.

Adjective

unobedient (comparative more unobedient, superlative most unobedient)

  1. (archaic, nonstandard, obsolete) Disobedient.
    • For although they were worthy of any puniſhment: yit had I leuer they might haue flooriſhed in welfare and ſafetie: which had come to paſſe, if they had not bin vtterlye vnobedient too all good counſel.1571, John Calvin, “Iohn Calvin to the Godly Readers Sendeth Greeting”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The Psalmes of Dauid and Others. With M. Iohn Caluin’s Commentaries, London: […] Thomas East and...
    • Pepin, not unobedient to the Popes call, passing into Italy, frees him out of danger, […]1641 May, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC, page 43

Forms of unobedient

comparativemore unobedient
superlativemost unobedient

Origin of unobedient

From Middle English unobedient. Equivalent to un- + obedient.

Words formed from unobedient

Questions about unobedient

What does unobedient mean?
Unobedient means disobedient.
What part of speech is unobedient?
Unobedient is an adjective.

Words near unobedient in the dictionary

  1. Uno reverse cards
  2. unoaked
  3. unoared
  4. unobdurate
  5. unobedience
  6. unobedient
  7. unobediently
  8. unobese
  9. unobeyable
  10. unobeyed
  11. unobeying

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