Definitions for Defiance

Defiance de·fi·ance

Spelling: [dih-fahy-uh ns]
IPA: /dɪˈfaɪ əns/

Defiance is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 233 anagrams from letters in Defiance (acdeefin).

Definitions for Defiance

noun

  1. a daring or bold resistance to authority or to any opposing force.
  2. open disregard; contempt (often followed by of):
  3. a challenge to meet in combat or in a contest.
  4. a city in NW Ohio.

Idioms

  1. bid defiance to, to offer resistance; defy.
  2. in defiance of, in spite of; notwithstanding:

Origin of Defiance

1250-1300; Middle English Old French, equivalent to defi(er) to defy + -ance -ance

Examples for Defiance

She had just shot her arrow at an electric force field, an apparently society-changing act of defiance.

This was to throw a sort of defiance to the fear; and certainly as often as I did so it abated.

The heralds returned with an answer of defiance from the hill boys.

If I balked at an act or found it difficult to perform, I was “punished” for my defiance (which is the nature of a BDSM scene).

In defiance, I held my ticket above my head, which triggered the spitting and chants of “How Dare You!”

She ate as well as spoke in a hurried manner, and as if in defiance of her feelings.

The monkey seemed to be sticking his tongue out at me in defiance.

Another 10 slaves threw themselves overboard in a display of defiance at the inhumanity.

They set the battle in array, they uttered cries of defiance.

The first look that they gave at the upper world was a glare of wrath and defiance.

Word Value for Defiance
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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