CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Dictionary entry overview: What does civil disobedience mean? • CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE (noun)
The noun CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE has 1 sense:
1. a group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination)
Familiarity information: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE (noun)
Meaning:
A group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
Thoreau wrote a famous essay justifying civil disobedience
Hypernyms ("civil disobedience" is a kind of...):
direct action (a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "civil disobedience"):
sit-in (a form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators occupy seats and refuse to move)
protest march (occasion when you can express opposition by marching (usually on some government institution) without a license)
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