Word Meanings - NONOBEDIENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Neglect of obedience; failure to obey.

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• OBEDIENCE
  1. The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control. Government must compel the obedience of individuals. Ames. 2. Words or actions denoting
• NEGLECT
  disregard, neglect, the literal sense prob. neing, not to pick up; nec not, nor (fr. ne not + -que, a particle akin to Goth. -h, -uh, and prob. to E. who; cf. Goth. nih nor) + L. legere to pick up, 1. Not to attend to with due care or attention;
• NEGLECTION
  The state of being negligent; negligence. Shak.
• FAILURE
  1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. 2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. 3. Want of success; the state of having failed. 4. Decau, or defect from decay;
• NEGLECTFUL
  Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent. Pope. A cold and neglectful countenance. Locke. Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it. Arbuthnot. -- Neg*lect"ful*ly,
• NEGLECTEDNESS
  The state of being neglected.
• NEGLECTER
  One who neglects. South.
• NEGLECTINGLY
  Carelessly; heedlessly. Shak.
• NEGLECTIVE
  Neglectful. "Neglective of their own children." Fuller.
• INOBEDIENCE
  Disobedience. Wyclif. Chaucer.
• SELF-NEGLECTING
  A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak.
• DISOBEDIENCE
  Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition. He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience. Tillotson.
• NONOBEDIENCE
  Neglect of obedience; failure to obey.
• DEFAILURE
  Failure. Barrow.
• UNOBEDIENCE
  Disobedience. Wyclif.
• MISOBEDIENCE
  Mistaken obedience; disobedience. Milton.