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1
refusal to obey
- any defiance of the authoritarian regime would have dire consequences
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- discourteousness,
- disrespect,
- impertinence,
- impoliteness,
- impudence,
- inconsiderateness,
- inconsideration,
- insolence,
- rudeness,
- ungraciousness
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2
the inclination to resist
- the troubled youth seems to have an ingrained defiance to authority of any sort
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3
an inclination to fight or quarrel
- a deeply troubled person who seemed the very soul of defiance
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- acidity,
- biliousness,
- captiousness,
- crankiness,
- crossness,
- disagreeableness,
- fractiousness,
- fretfulness,
- grouchiness,
- grumpiness,
- huffiness,
- irascibility,
- irascibleness,
- irritability,
- irritableness,
- orneriness,
- peevishness,
- pettishness,
- petulance,
- querulousness,
- rudeness,
- surliness,
- testiness,
- waspishness
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The first known use of defiance was in the 15th century
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