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# disobedience

noun (disobedience, uncountable)

«disobedience» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Disobedience is refusing or failing to do what a person in charge, a rule or a law tells you. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#m1)
2. (formal) Civil disobedience means breaking a law peacefully on purpose to protest that it is unfair. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#m2)

### In the lessons

In ethics and religious education, the story of Adam and Eve is about disobedience; in school, disobedience breaks class rules. In history lessons, Rosa Parks and Gandhi used civil disobedience. Phrases: «act of disobedience», «civil disobedience», «punished for disobedience».

### Examples

- The dog was told off for its disobedience. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#x1)
- Disobedience to the rules can lead to a detention. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#x2)
- Adam and Eve's disobedience is told in the book of Genesis. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#x3)
- Rosa Parks' act of civil disobedience helped change unfair laws. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#x4)
- The soldier was punished for disobedience. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#x5)
- The story shows how disobedience got the boy into trouble. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#x6)
- Peaceful disobedience can be brave when a law is unfair. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#x7)
- Poor Urashima! because of his disobedience he could never return to the Sea King’s realm or the lovely Princess beyond the sea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#x8)

### Note

Uncountable. Opposite: obedience. Related: disobey (verb), disobedient (adjective). «Dis-» means not.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «disobedience» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«disobedience» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/disobedience.html) on Mova free.