disobeyance

Example Sentences

• "The governor and queen were highly commoved hereat; therefore they cauſed ſummon the doers of this fact, to compear within ſix days to underly the law; and, upon their diſobeyance, denounced them to the horn."
• "Officers ordered to attend Full Dress Parade, will not appear in white neck-ties, lavender kid gloves, and swallow-tailed coats. A projected visit to the Opera (after the Parade has been dismissed) will not in future be accepted as an excuse for disobeyance of this order."
• "A man’s heart accustoms itself to vice because he becomes as dead to it; so also does one become accustomed to drink and like evil. Thus do men become disobedient; thus do men become mockers; despisers of religion and infidels. The latter become so on account of practice and habit and a disobeyance of the will of God."
• "All disobeyances, all offenses, all crimes are done in opposition to, in resistance of the commands of authority."
• "Wearing dresses backwards was another feature of the week. The disobeyance of this and several other senior rules were brought up before the sophomore court, held in a very solemn atmosphere, where such penalties were placed upon the accused as wearing their hair in seven braids and carrying French dolls the following day."
• "The Rorschach Test requires that the whole series of ten pictures be presented at one sitting. Although in disobeyance of this rule we divided the series into two groups of five pictures each, we often observed distinct fatigue and a tendency for the perseveration of responses."