Defiance

n.	1.	The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat. A war without a just defiance made. - Dryden. Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down. - Tennyson.
	2.	A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition. He breathed defiance to my ears. - Shak.
	3.	A casting aside; renunciation; rejection. To bid defiance to defy; to disregard recklessly or contemptuously. - Locke.

Noun	1.	defiance - intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude Synonyms: rebelliousness
	2.	defiance - a hostile challenge
	3.	defiance - a defiant act

audacity, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, combative reaction, command, complaint, contempt, contrariness, contumaciousness, contumacy, counteraction, dare, declaration of war, defi, defiance of authority, defy, demur, despite, dispute, dissent, dissentience, effrontery, factiousness, fractiousness, hardihood, headstrongness, impudence, incorrigibility, indocility, indomitability, insolence, insubordination, insuppressibility, insurgency, intractability, intractableness, irrepressibility, muster, negativism, noncooperation, objection, obstinacy, obstreperousness, opposition, order, orneriness, passive resistance, perversity, protest, reaction, rebelliousness, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, refractoriness, reluctance, remonstrance, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repulse, repulsion, resistance, restiveness, revolt, shrewishness, stand, stubbornness, stump, summons, temerity, uncontrollability, uncooperativeness, ungovernability, unmalleability, unmanageability, unmoldableness, unruliness, unsubmissiveness, untamableness, wildness, withstanding

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