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defiance
1[ dih-fahy-uhns ]
noun
- a daring or bold resistance to authority or to any opposing force.
- open disregard; contempt (often followed by of ):
defiance of danger; His refusal amounted to defiance.
- a challenge to meet in combat or in a contest.
Defiance
2[ dih-fahy-uhns ]
noun
- a city in NW Ohio.
defiance
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noun
- open or bold resistance to or disregard for authority, opposition, or power
- a challenging attitude or behaviour; challenge
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Idioms and Phrases
- bid defiance to, to offer resistance; defy.
- in defiance of, in spite of; notwithstanding:
There was a splendid audience in defiance of the rainstorm.
More idioms and phrases containing defiance
see in defiance of .Example Sentences
Each day brings news of another government agency gutted or federal program eliminated in open defiance of laws passed by Congress.
Trump’s latest push for deportations, and California’s defiance, puts local law enforcement officials in a precarious spot.
AFP reported that he told the crowd that the demonstration was "an act of defiance against fascism".
The group performed under their new name NJZ, in seeming defiance of last week's ruling.
Henry will brook no defiance, no matter how allusive, and so Cromwell must die under the shadow of an axe.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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