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Definition of Defiant
1. Adjective. Boldly resisting authority or an opposing force. "A defiant attitude"
Similar to: Insubordinate, Resistant, Resistive, Obstreperous, Recalcitrant
Also: Difficult, Unmanageable, Disobedient, Insubordinate, Intractable, Unwilling
Antonyms: Compliant
Derivative terms: Defiance, Defiance, Defiance, Defy, Noncompliance
Definition of Defiant
1. a. Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act.
Definition of Defiant
1. Adjective. Defying. ¹
2. Adjective. Boldly resisting opposition. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Defiant
1. showing defiance [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defiant
Literary usage of Defiant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America by Henry Wilson (1877)
"The next evening and a few evenings later there were held public war-meetings at
which Davis, Hunter, and Benjamin spoke, uttering the most defiant and ..."
2. Christianity in the United States from the First Settlement Down to the by Daniel Dorchester (1888)
"From defiant Discourtesy to a Patronizing Respect. ... The defiant spirit of the
Diderots and the Paines has almost wholly disappeared. ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"This he published at Antwerp in 1565, with the title ' The Betraying of the
Beastliness of the Heretics,' 12mo, and a defiant address to Grindal. ..."
4. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1906)
"... tax-payers of Charleston County had not a single representative in the
legislature.8 Crowds of defiant negroes roamed " through the charred and desolate ..."
5. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"Its Heroism is like a mediaeval castle, still haughtily defiant of the wintry
storms. Its Romance is the ivy, which covers the historic ruin with a mantle ..."
6. Wild Animals I Have Known: And 200 Drawings by Ernest Thompson Seton (1912)
"... from the fagot- hook disabled him, dashing him, gasping and writhing, on the
stone floor, desperate, and done for, but game and defiant to the last. ..."
7. English Colonies in America by John Andrew Doyle (1907)
"He would do everything for the convenience of the troops short of defiant
surrendering the fort. The troops were to be billeted Leisler. in the city. ..."
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