† inoˈbedience Obs.
[a. OF. inobedience, or ad. late L. inobēdientia (Augustine), f. in- (in-3) + obœd-, obēdientia obedience: see -ence.]
The withholding of obedience; = disobedience. (Rare after 1600.)
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 198 Þe vifte hweolp hette Inobedience, þet is, þet child þet ne buhð nout his eldre. 1382 Wyclif Rom. v. 19 By inobedience of o man manye ben ordeyned synneris. c 1440 Gesta Rom. i. lviii. 242 (Harl. MS.) Þerefore late vs obeye in all thinges to god, that we be not dampnid for owr inobedience. 1563 Foxe A. & M. 767/1 Notorious and apparant contemptes and other inobediences. 1677 Gale Crt. Gentiles iii. 131 Clement Alexandrinus..asserted that obedience and inobedience was in our power. 1684 tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xx. 867 It must be attributed to the inobedience of the Matter. |