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  • 21disobedience — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Refusal to obey Nouns 1. disobedience, insubordination, contumacy; infraction, infringement; naughtiness; violation, noncompliance; recusancy; nonobservance. Slang, behavishness, orneriness. See… …

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  • 22violation — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Transgression] Syn. infringement, infraction, negligence, misbehavior, nonobservance, vioLating, shattering, transgressing, forcible trespass, trespassing, contravention, breach, breaking, rupture, flouting; see also crime 1 …

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  • 23Disobedience — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Disobedience >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 disobedience disobedience insubordination contumacy Sgm: N 1 infraction infraction infringement Sgm: N 1 violation violation noncompliance Sgm: N 1 nonobservance nonobservance …

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  • 24Improbity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Improbity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 improbity improbity Sgm: N 1 dishonesty dishonesty dishonor Sgm: N 1 deviation from rectitude deviation from rectitude Sgm: N 1 disgrace disgrace &c.(disrepute) 874 Sgm: N 1 fraud …

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  • 25DIVINE PUNISHMENT — In a system of law based on divine revelation all punishment originally and ultimately derives from God. Even though human agencies may be entrusted with authority to inflict punishments in certain prescribed cases, God s own overriding punishing …

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  • 26Infraction — In*frac tion, n. [L. infractio: cf. F. infraction.] The act of infracting or breaking; breach; violation; nonobservance; infringement; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, rule, or law. I. Watts. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 27Interstice — In*ter stice (?; 277), n.; pl. {Interstices}. [L. interstitium a pause, interval; inter between + sistere to set, fr. stare to stand: cf. F. interstice. See {Stand}.] [1913 Webster] 1. That which intervenes between one thing and another;… …

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  • 28Interstices — Interstice In*ter stice (?; 277), n.; pl. {Interstices}. [L. interstitium a pause, interval; inter between + sistere to set, fr. stare to stand: cf. F. interstice. See {Stand}.] [1913 Webster] 1. That which intervenes between one thing and… …

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  • 29Sin — Sin, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sinned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sinning}.] [OE. sinnen, singen, sinegen, AS. syngian. See {Sin}, n.] 1. To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by… …

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  • 30Sinned — Sin Sin, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sinned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sinning}.] [OE. sinnen, singen, sinegen, AS. syngian. See {Sin}, n.] 1. To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by… …

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