Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (II) Intersocial Volition
Section I. General Intersocial Volition
742. Disobedience.
NOUN:
DISOBEDIENCE, insubordination, contumacy; infraction, infringement; violation, noncompliance; nonobservance [See Nonobservance].
REVOLT, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, émeute [F.], riot, tumult (disorder) [See Disorder]; strike (resistance) [See Resistance]; barring out; defiance [See Defiance].
mutinousness &c. adj.; mutineering; sedition, treason; high -, petty -, misprision of- treason; præmunire or premunire; lèse-majesté [F.]; violation of law [See Illegality]; defection, secession, Sinn Fein; revolution; overthrow -, overturn- of -government, - authority; sabotage [F.], sans-culottism, bolshevism.
INSURGENT, mutineer, rebel, revolter, rioter, traitor, Carbonaro [It.], sansculotte, red republican, bonnet rouge [F.], communist, Fenian, Sinn Feiner, Red, Bolshevist, frondeur [F.], seceder, Secessionist [esp., U. S. hist.] or Secesh [colloq. or slang, U. S.]; apostate, renegade, runaway, runagate; brawler, anarchist, demagogue; Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade; ring-leader.
VERB:
DISOBEY, violate, infringe; shirk, slide out of, slack; set at defiance (defy) [See Defiance]; set authority at naught, run riot, fly in the face of; take the law into one’s own hands; kick over the traces; refuse to support, bolt [U. S. politics].
turn -, run- restive; champ the bit; strike (resist) [See Resistance]; rise, - in arms; secede; mutiny, rebel.
