Stand up when the powers that be order you to sit down, and you've given a fine example of defiance. It happens when someone or a group of someones openly flouts or challenges authority.
The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.
Noun
a defiant act
Noun
intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude
Noun
a hostile challenge
n.
The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking
to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.
n.
A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition
to resist; contempt of opposition.
n.
A casting aside; renunciation; rejection.
Defiance
A war without a just defiance made.
Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down.2.
He breathed defiance to my ears.3.
The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.
Usage Examples
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
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Other Usage ExamplesMrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.
It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.
There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.
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