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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1520-1554
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Unobedience, -iens, n. [ME unobedience (Wyclif), vnobedyens (c1440), unobedyence (a1470); Obedience n.] Disobedience, or an instance of this. = Disobedience n. — c1520-c1535 Nisbet 2 Cor. x 6.
And we haue reddy to venge al vnobedience, quhen your obedience salbe fillit c1520-c1535 Nisbet Heb. ii 2.
For gif the … ilk breking of the law and vnobediens [P. vnobedience] tuke iust retributioun of mede, how sal we eschape? 1554 Knox III 204.
Befoir that God take vengeance upon thair unobedience
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