defiance (n.)
- audacity
- boldness
- bravado
- brazenness
- call
- cartel
- challenge
- command
- complaint
- contempt
- contrariness
- contumacy
- counteraction
- dare
- demur
- despite
- dispute
- dissent
- effrontery
- fractiousness
- hardihood
- impudence
- indomitability
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgency
- intractability
- intractableness
- irrepressibility
- muster
- negativism
- objection
- obstinacy
- obstreperousness
- opposition
- order
- orneriness
- perversity
- protest
- reaction
- rebelliousness
- rebuff
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- refractoriness
- reluctance
- remonstrance
- repulse
- repulsion
- resistance
- restiveness
- revolt
- shrewishness
- stand
- stubbornness
- stump
- summons
- temerity
- unmalleability
- unruliness
- wildness
Again to the battle, Achaians!
Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!
Our land, the first garden of Liberty's tree,
It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free.
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by.
