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Defiance
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What's The Definition Of Defiance?
[n] a defiant act
[n] intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude [n] a hostile challenge Synonyms | Synonyms for Defiance: rebelliousness Related Terms | Find terms related to Defiance: audacity | boldness | bravado | brazenness | call | cartel | challenge | combative reaction | command | complaint | contempt | contrariness | contumaciousness | contumacy | counteraction | dare | declaration of war | defi | defiance of authority | defy | demur | despite | dispute | dissent | dissentience | effrontery | factiousness | fractiousness | hardihood | headstrongness | impudence | incorrigibility | indocility | indomitability | insolence | insubordination | insuppressibility | insurgency | intractability | intractableness | irrepressibility | muster | negativism | noncooperation | objection | obstinacy | obstreperousness | opposition | order | orneriness | passive resistance | perversity | protest | reaction | rebelliousness | rebuff | recalcitrance | recalcitrancy | recalcitration | refractoriness | reluctance | remonstrance | renitence | renitency | repellence | repellency | repulse | repulsion | resistance | restiveness | revolt | shrewishness | stand | stubbornness | stump | summons | temerity | uncontrollability | uncooperativeness | ungovernability | unmalleability | unmanageability | unmoldableness | unruliness | unsubmissiveness | untamableness | wildness | withstanding See Also | challenge | insubordination | intractability | intractableness | obstreperousness | resistance Defiance In Webster's Dictionary \De*fi"ance\, n. [OF. defiance, desfiance, challenge,
fr. desfier to challenge, F. d['e]fier. See {Defy}.]
1. The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to
combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.
A war without a just defiance made. --Dryden.
Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down.
--Tennyson.
2. A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition
to resist; contempt of opposition.
He breathed defiance to my ears. --Shak.
3. A casting aside; renunciation; rejection. [Obs.]
``Defiance to thy kindness.'' --Ford.
{To bid defiance}, {To set at defiance}, to defy; to
disregard recklessly or contemptuously. --Locke.
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