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Definition: Disobedience |
DisobedienceNoun1. The failure to obey. 2. The trait of being unwilling to obey. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disobedience" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: DisobedienceSynonym: noncompliance (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: conformity (n), obedience (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disobedience | Noun: disobedience, insubordination, contumacy; infraction, infringement; violation, noncompliance; nonobservance. |
Illegality | Noun: lawlessness; illicitness; breach of law, violation of law, infraction of the law; disobedience; unconformity. |
Nonobservance | Lawlessness; disobedience; bad faith. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Disobedience |
| English words defined with "disobedience": Because of, Bluebeard ♦ civil disobedience, contempt ♦ Disobediency, Disobeisance ♦ fractiousness, froward ♦ headstrong ♦ Inobedience, Insubjection, Insubmission ♦ Misobedience ♦ self-willed, sit in, sit-in, subpoena, subpoena ad testificandum ♦ Unobedience, unruliness ♦ wilful, wilfulness, willful, willfulness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "disobedience": Disinherited, Disobedience ♦ Man ... Monkey ♦ Nettles ♦ Offense ♦ Quos Ego ♦ Red Men ♦ Secret Order ♦ Table. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "disobedience": Misobedience ♦ Unobedience. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Disobedience to me is disobedience to him! (Children of the Corn; writing credit: George Goldsmith; Stephen King) It's amazing what one act of civil disobedience can do for a person. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | 1. Harvey Wasserman : Civil disobedience & direct action from the Boston Tea Party to Seabrook occupation, 2. Green Mountain Post Films' The Last Resort ... Nov. 16. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Clement and Alexandria | A movement of the soul contrary to nature in the sense of disobedience to reason, that is what passions are. |
Henry David Thoreau | Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But whether the mischief hath oftener begun in the peoples wantonness, and a desire to cast off the lawful authority of their rulers, or in the rulers insolence, and endeavours to get and exercise an arbitrary power over their people; whether oppression, or disobedience, gave the first rise to the disorder, I leave it to impartial history to determine. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Hong Kong | In what amounts to acts of civil disobedience, one group refuses to comply with the notification provisions, and it has made clear its intention to continue to do so until the law is revoked. (references) |
Venezuela | On March 28, approximately 400 students, faculty and staff, some claiming to be members of a formerly unknown group called "Utopia and Disobedience," caused violent demonstrations that resulted in some injuries, and the sequestering of Rector Giannetto along with other university officials in the Rectorate. (references) | |
Singapore | Under the ISA, the Government may restrict or place conditions on publications that incite violence, that counsel disobedience to the law, that might arouse tensions among the various segments of the population (races, religions, and language groups), or that might threaten national interests, national security, or public order. (references) | |
Economic History | Bangladesh | The talks proved unsuccessful, however, and on March 1, 1971, Pakistani President Yahya Khan indefinitely postponed the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan. (references) |
San Marino | In 1739, Cardinal Alberoni used military force to occupy the country, but civil disobedience was used to protest this, and clandestine notes sent to the Pope to obtain justice were answered by the Pope's recognition of San Marino's rights and restoration of independence. (references) | |
Human Rights | Peru | She was charged with disobedience and being absent without permission. (references) |
Worker Rights | Japan | Employers often isolated the women, subjected them to constant surveillance, and used violence to punish them for disobedience. (references) |
Thailand | Traffickers often restrict the women's movements, threaten them and their families, isolate them, and use violence to punish them for disobedience The 1997 Prevention and Suppression of Trafficking in Women and Children Act increased the penalties for trafficking in women and children for the purposes of prostitution or slave labor, and provided for wide powers of search and assistance to victims. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Disobedience" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.55% of the time. "Disobedience" is used about 220 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.55% | 219 | 20,419 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 220 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "disobedience": civil disobedience. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
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| Language | Translations for "disobedience"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mosbindje (contumacy, defiance, insubordination, recalcitrance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نشوز (prominence, recalcitrance), تمرد (contumacy, disobey, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, naughtiness, rebel, rebellion, revolt, take the bit in one's hands, turbulence, waywardness), عصيان (bawdiness, contempt, insurgence, insurgency, rebel, rebellion, recalcitrance, revolt, riot), جموح (defiance, lawlessness, recalcitrance, stubborn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | непослушание (insubordination), непокорство (contumacy, insubordination, recalcitrance, refractoriness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 忤逆. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neposlušnost (contumacy, insubordination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | civil ulydighed (civil disobedience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid (civil disobedience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نافرمانی , سرپیچی (Refusal, Transgression), عدم اطاعت . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tottelemattomuus (insubordination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | désobéissance, insoumission, indocilité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ungehorsam (contumacious, disobedient, disobediently, disobeying, insubordinate, insubordination, naughtiness, naughty, undutiful, undutifully), Unfolgsamkeit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανυπακοή (insubordination), απείθεια (contumaciousness, contumacy, insubordination, intractableness, recusancy, restiveness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מרי (insubordination, insurgence, mutiny, rebelliousness), "מרי" (contumacy, defiance, rebelliousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | engedetlenség (intractability, naughtiness, non-compliance, rebelliousness), szófogadatlanság. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pengabai (carelessness), ketidakpatuhan, kebinalan (wild behavior). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | disubbidienza (disobedient, naughtiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 背馳 (contradiction, inconsistency), 違命 , 我がまま (egoism, selfishness, whim, wilfulness), 我が儘 (egoism, selfishness, whim, wilfulness), 我侭 (egoism, selfishness, whim, wilfulness), 我儘 (egoism, selfishness, whim, wilfulness), 不服" (insubordination), 不" . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふふくじゅう (insubordination), ふじゅうじゅ", いめい (alias, another name, dying instructions, fame, nickname, prestige, will), わがまま (egoism, selfishness, whim, wilfulness, willfulness), はいち (arrangement, contradiction, disposition, inconsistency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 명 위반. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | meeviallys (non-compliance, rebellion, rebelliousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | ulydighet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isobedienceday desfazer (dash, disincorporate, disjoint, disrupt, dissolve, fade away, limb, ravel out, undo, unlive, unmake, unpack, unpick, untwine, unweave). (various references) nesupunere (contempt, insubordination, non-compliance), neascultare (contempt, contumacy, insubordination, obstreperousness). (various references) неповиновение (contumacy, defiance, recusancy). (various references) neposlušnost (contumacy, insubordination, recalcitrance), nepokoravanje. (various references) desobediencia (defiance, naughtiness, non-compliance). (various references) olydnad (insubordination, offence, recusancy). (various references) direniş (boycott, noncooperation, non-cooperation), serkeşlik (disorderliness, fractiousness), itaatsizlik (indiscipline, noncompliance, non-compliance), başkaldırma (insubordination, insurrection, mutiny, opposition, rebellion, revolt, uprising), asilik (contumacy, insubordination). (various references) непокора (contumacy, non-compliance, nonconformity, non-obedience). (various references) sự không vâng lời, sự không tuân lệnh. (various references) anufudd-dod. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | diffidentia, inoboedientia, inoboedientiam. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 5, Verse 19 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Wsper gar dia thV parakohV tou enoV anqrwpou amartwloi katestaqhsan oi polloi outwV kai dia thV upakohV tou enoV dikaioi katastaqhsontai oi polloi |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sicut enim per inoboedientiam unius hominis peccatores constituti sunt multi ita et per unius oboeditionem iusti constituentur multi |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | For swa swa þurh þa unhiersumnesse þæ anan mannes wurdon þa manigan to synngendum, swa same þurh þa hiersumnesse þæs anan mannes weorðan fela manna rihtwisod. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For as bi inobedience of o man manye ben maad synneris, so bi the obedience of oon manye schulen be iust. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | For as by one manes disobediece many be cam synners: so by ye obediece of one shall many be made righteous. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Because, as numbers of men became sinners through the wrongdoing of one man, even so will great numbers get righteousness through the keeping of the word of God by one man. |
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| Language | Romans Chapter 5, Verse 19 |
| Cebuano | Kay maingon nga pinaagi sa pagkamasupilon sa usa ka tawo daghan ang nahimong makasasala, mao man usab nga pinaagi sa pagkamasinugtanon sa usa ka tawo daghan ang mahimong matarung. |
| Croatian | Doista, kao što su neposluhom jednoga èovjeka mnogi postali grešnici tako æe i posluhom Jednoga mnogi postati pravednici. |
| Danish | Thi ligesom ved det ene Menneskes Ulydighed de mange bleve til Syndere, så skulle også ved den enes Lydighed de mange blive til retfærdige. |
| Dutch | Want gelijk door de ongehoorzaamheid van dien enen mens velen tot zondaars gesteld zijn geworden, alzo zullen ook door de gehoorzaamheid van Enen velen tot rechtvaardigen gesteld worden. |
| Finnish | sillä niinkuin yhden ihmisen tottelemattomuuden kautta monet ovat joutuneet syntisiksi, niin myös yhden kuuliaisuuden kautta monet tulevat vanhurskaiksi. |
| French | Car, comme par la désobéissance d`un seul homme beaucoup ont été rendus pécheurs, de même par l`obéissance d`un seul beaucoup seront rendus justes. |
| German | Denn gleichwie durch eines Menschen Ungehorsam viele Sünder geworden sind, also auch durch eines Gehorsam werden viele Gerechte. |
| Hungarian | Mert miképen egy embernek engedetlensége által sokan bûnösökké lettek: azonképen egynek engedelmessége által sokan igazakká lesznek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Dan sebagaimana banyak orang menjadi orang berdosa karena satu orang tidak taat, begitu juga banyak orang dimungkinkan berbaik kembali dengan Allah karena satu orang taat kepada Allah. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena sama seperti oleh sebab hal seorang tiada taat, banyak orang menjadi orang berdosa, demikian juga oleh sebab taat Seorang, yang banyak itu dijadikan orang benar. |
| Italian | Similmente, come per la disobbedienza di uno solo tutti sono stati costituiti peccatori, così anche per l'obbedienza di uno solo tutti saranno costituiti giusti. |
| Latvian | Jo kâ viena cilvçka nepaklausîbas dçï daudzi kïuvuði grçcinieki, tâ arî Viena paklausîbas dçï daudzi kïuvuði taisnîgi. |
| Maori | Na, i te mea na te tutu o te tangata kotahi i whai hara ai te tokomaha, waihoki na te ngohengohe o te kotahi, ka meinga te tokomaha kia tika. |
| Norwegian | for likesom de mange er blitt syndere ved det ene menneskes ulydighet, så skal også de mange bli rettferdige ved den enes lydighet. |
| Rumanian | Cqci, dupq cum prin neascultarea unui singur om, cei mulyi au fost fqcuyi pqcqtowi, tot awa, prin ascultarea unui singur om, cei mulyi vor fi fqcuyi neprihqniyi. |
| Shuar | Núnisan chikichik aishman umirkachmajai Untsurí tunaarintin ajasarmiayi. Tura chikichik aishman umirkamujai Untsurí shuar pénker awajnasarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Porque como por la desobediencia de un solo hombre, muchos fueron constituidos pecadores, así también, por la obediencia de uno, muchos serán constituidos justos. |
| Swahili | Na kama kwa kutotii kwa mtu mmoja watu wengi walifanywa wenye dhambi, kadhalika kutii kwa mtu mmoja kutawafanya wengi wakubaliwe kuwa waadilifu. |
| Swedish | Ty såsom genom en enda människas olydnad de många fingo stå såsom syndare, så skola ock genom en endas lydnad de många stå såsom rättfärdiga. |
| Uma | Adam toei, uma-i mengkoru hi parenta Alata'ala, alaa-na wori' tauna jadi' topojeko' -mi. Wae wo'o-hawo Yesus, mengkoru-i hi parenta Alata'ala, pai' ngkai pengkoru-na toe-mi, wori' tauna jadi' monoa' hi poncilo Alata'ala. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "disobedience": disobediences. (additional references) | |
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"Disobedience" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disobedibence. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disobedience" (pronounced di'subē"dēuns or di'sōbē"dēuns) |
| 7 | -b ē" d ē u n s | obedience. |
| 6 | -ē" d ē u n s | expedience. |
| 5 | -d ē u n s | audience, radiance. |
| 4 | -ē u n s | ambiance, ambience, dalliance, deviance, experience, inexperience, invariance, prescience, resilience, subservience, transience, variance. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
| 8 | -ō b ē" d ē u n s | obedience. |
| 6 | -ē" d ē u n s | expedience. |
| 5 | -d ē u n s | audience, radiance. |
| 4 | -ē u n s | ambiance, ambience, dalliance, deviance, experience, inexperience, invariance, prescience, resilience, subservience, transience, variance. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-d-e-e-e-i-i-n-o-s" | |
-2 letters: decisioned, obediences. | |
-3 letters: obedience. | |
-4 letters: biocides, codeines, decision, deicides, dioecies, ebonised, seconded. | |
-5 letters: bedside, bendees, biddies, biocide, bionics, bodices, ceboids, codeine, codeins, deboned, debones, decides, decodes, deicide, descend, diocese, discoed, discoid, ebonies, ebonise, encoded, encodes, eosinic, incised, indices, iodides, iodines, iodised, ionised, noddies, obscene, scended, seceded, seconde, secondi, seedbed, senecio. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d-d-e-e-e-i-i-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: disobediences. | |
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HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s o b e d i e n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 006F 0062 0065 0064 0069 0065 006E 0063 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387585816871707571806971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Bible Trace 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
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