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noun

Defiance n.

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." "Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down."

A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition. "He breathed defiance to my ears."

A casting aside; renunciation; rejection. (Obs.) "Defiance to thy kindness."

To bid defiance, To set at defiance, to defy; to disregard recklessly or contemptuously.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Defiance" Quotes from Famous Books

... few hundred yards away, backed by woods, stood the gray mass of stone which had proved such a kill-joy of old to the Welsh sportsmen during the pheasant season. Even now, it had a certain air of defiance. The setting sun lighted the waters of the lake. No figures were to be seen moving in the grounds. The place resembled a palace ...

— The Intrusion of Jimmy • P. G. Wodehouse

... Rachel, taking her proffered hand in the spirit in which it was given, and with the air rather of a defiance than of a greeting; 'I came to see ...

— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... make an appeal to the friends of some proposition of peace. This is the last day of the session but one, and we have not made the progress of one line. We have gone into an eternal discussion about questions of order, and that, too, in defiance of the rule of the Senate. I insist that the question shall be decided without ...

— A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention • Lucius Eugene Chittenden

... that the miracle, or at least the extraordinary defiance of physical law which had been accomplished by Phadrig, would have produced something like consternation among the bulk of the spectators. It did nothing of the sort. They were, perhaps, above the ordinary level of Society intellect in London; but they only saw something ...

— The Mummy and Miss Nitocris - A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension • George Griffith

... for Calais (before which town, while at anchor, Isabel was confined of her first-born). To the earl's rage and dismay his deputy Vauclerc fired upon his ships. Warwick then steered on towards Normandy, captured some Flemish vessels by the way, in token of defiance to the earl's old Burgundian foe, and landed at Harfleur, where he and his companions were received with royal honours by the Admiral of France, and finally took their way to the court of ...

— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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