disobedience Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the failure to obey
    noncompliance.
  2. noun the trait of being unwilling to obey

WordNet


Dis`o*be"di*ence noun
Definitions
  1. Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.
    He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience. Tillotson.

Webster 1913