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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1456-1626
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Inobedience, n. Also: inn-, -ens, -ienttis. [ME. (a 1225) and OF. inobedience, late L. inobēdientia.] Disobedience.Also, (lord of) Inobedience, see Lord n. 25.(a) 1456 Hay I. 297/25.
For the quhilk inobedience the lord wald sett on him to sla him 1473 Acts Lords Auditors 29/2.
That the witnes … be summond … to be wardit for thair absence and inobedience a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 877.
Thir folk … ar lik men of pride, Quhilkis standis stif be inobedience 1546 Acts II. 470/1.
This ... grete innobedience maid ... to God and man 1554 Criminal Trials I. 368.
Quha … become in will to oure Souerane lady … for diuers convocationis and inobedience committit 1564 Bk. Univ. Kirk I. 48.
Them that ... comitts inobedience agains the said lawes 1587 Reg. Morton I. 155.
Sum new attemptatis of misreule and inobedience 1622-6 Bisset I. 79/28.
Misordoure, inobedience, tumult, and trubill of the commoun weall(b) 1490 Irland Mir. I. 13/3.
We se gret truble in this realme, hunger, mortalite, rebellioun, and inobediens 1535 Edinb. Hammermen 145 b.
Gevin to the officeris to put Thomas Hovme in ward for inobediens c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2272.
So for his inobediens, … Wer puneist his successioun(c) 1557 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 12.
For his inobedienttis and braiking of the statutis
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