Defiance vs Revolt - What's the difference?
defiance | revolt |
The feeling, or spirit of being defiant.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=6, title= To rebel, particularly against authority.
* Shakespeare
To repel greatly.
* Burke
* J. Morley
To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at .
To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
* Milton
* J. Morley
As nouns the difference between defiance and revolt
is that defiance is the feeling, or spirit of being defiant while revolt is an act of revolt.As a verb revolt is
to rebel, particularly against authority.defiance
English
(wikipedia defiance)Noun
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance . After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
revolt
English
Verb
- The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserved.
- Our discontented counties do revolt .
- Your brother revolts me!
- This abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds.
- To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creature revolted his conscience and offended his reason.
- (Spenser)
- The stomach revolts''' at such food; his nature '''revolts at cruelty.
- Still revolt when truth would set them free.
- His clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time.