inobedience
English
Etymology
From Middle English inobedience, from Old French inobedience and Latin inobēdientia.
Noun
inobedience (uncountable)
- (obsolete) disobedience
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.) (in Middle English), published c. 1410, Romayns 5:19, lines 4–6, page 58r, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- for as bi inobedience of o man manye ben maad ſynneris .· ſo bi þe obedience of oon manye ſchulen be iuſt
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for inobedience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)