disobedience

«disobedience» in Mova's school dictionary: refusing or failing to do what a person in charge, a rule… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (disobedience, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Disobedience is refusing or failing to do what a person in charge, a rule or a law tells you. tree →

2) (formal) Civil disobedience means breaking a law peacefully on purpose to protest that it is unfair. tree →

sense 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 →
• Disobedience to the rules can lead to a detention. tree →
• Adam and Eve's disobedience is told in the book of Genesis. tree →
• Rosa Parks' act of civil disobedience helped change unfair laws. tree →
• The soldier was punished for disobedience. tree →
• The story shows how disobedience got the boy into trouble. tree →
• Peaceful disobedience can be brave when a law is unfair. tree →
• Poor Urashima! because of his disobedience he could never return to the Sea King’s realm or the lovely Princess beyond the sea. tree →

note

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

In the corpora

• Christians call the first disobedience the Fall: the moment when sin and trouble entered the world.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «disobedience» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.