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[ verb ] refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient
Examples "He disobeyed his supervisor and was fired" Used in print (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)This leads Irenaeus to the somewhat startling notion that Adam and Eve died on the same day that they disobeyed , namely , on a Friday , as a parallel to the death of Christ on Good_Friday ; he sees a parallel also to the Jewish day of preparation for the Sabbath . (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)Prompted by a guilty urge , he had disobeyed the order of a man he respected . |
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