Select Search World Factbook Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Bartlett's Quotations Respectfully Quoted Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Brewer's Phrase & Fable Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough All Verse Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals All Fiction Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Roget’s > International Thesaurus > 742. Disobedience.   PREVIOUS NEXT   CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · INDEX GUIDE 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.     ADJECTIVE: DISOBEDIENT; uncomplying, uncompliant; unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable; breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control; restive, restiff [obs.], refractory, contumacious; recusant (refuse) [See Refusal]; recalcitrant; resisting [See Resistance]; lawless, riotous, mutinous, seditious, insurgent, revolutionary, sansculottic, secessionist.   unobeyed, disobeyed; unbidden.     QUOTATIONS: Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.—Tacitus Unthread the rude eye of rebellion.—King John Revolution is the larva of civilization.—Hugo There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.—Sidney Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.—Epitaph to John Bradshaw CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · INDEX GUIDE   PREVIOUS NEXT     Shakespeare · Bible · Strunk · Anatomy · Nonfiction · Quotations · Reference · Fiction · Poetry © 1993–2015 Bartleby.com · [Top 150] · Subjects · Titles · Authors · World Lit.