Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression.
noun
- lack of obedience
c.1400, from Old French desobedience, from Vulgar Latin *disobedientia (replacing Latin inobedientia) from Latin dis- (see dis-) + obedientia (see obedience). The English word replaced earlier desobeissance in this sense, and inobedience (c.1200).