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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#m1)

2) (formal) Civil disobedience means breaking a law peacefully on purpose to protest that it is unfair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#x1)
- Disobedience to the rules can lead to a detention. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#x2)
- Adam and Eve's disobedience is told in the book of Genesis. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#x3)
- Rosa Parks' act of civil disobedience helped change unfair laws. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#x4)
- The soldier was punished for disobedience. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#x5)
- The story shows how disobedience got the boy into trouble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#x6)
- Peaceful disobedience can be brave when a law is unfair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#x7)
- Poor Urashima! because of his disobedience he could never return to the Sea King’s realm or the lovely Princess beyond the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «disobedience» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disobedience/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.