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defiance
I noun affront, challenge, contumacy, dare, daring, disobedience, disregard, disregard of orders, gage, impudence, impudency, insolence, insubmission, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, invitation to combat, mutiny, noncompliance, noncooperation, opposition, oppugnation, provocatio, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, recusancy, resistance, revolt, revolution, sedition, strike, stubbornness, unruliness, uprising associated concepts: in defiance of the law II index conflict, contradiction, disrespect, impugnation, infraction, insurrection, mutiny, negation, noncompliance (nonobservance), nonconformity, protest, provocation, rebellion, rebuff, refusal, resistance, revolt, sedition, spite

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006