a defiant act, a hostile challenge............
"Defiance against Saddam Hussein by the Iraqi Kurds led him to attack them."
"The city enacted new income taxes in defiance of the state law."
A lot of people showed up to demonstrate in defiance of the new parking fees.
To rebel
defy
Due to the girl's continued defiance of basic school rules, she is serving a detention.
One word would be... rebellion.
"Deflance" isn't a word in the English dictionary, thus I'm assuming you mean "Defiance" Defiance means "to resist authority or any opposing force" Basically, if someone is defiant they're rebelling. Here's the word used in context. The young boys displayed daring defiance in disobey their mothers.
The angry men shook their fists in a gesture of defiance. Prisoners are being paraded in defiance of all international conventions. In defiance of her parents' curfew, she came home later than usual.
Defiance is a noun.
Any defiance will not be tolerated at school.
The child showed his defiance by refusing to be fed by his frustrated mother.
I was momentarily taken aback by the kitten's sudden defiance.
Due to the girl's continued defiance of basic school rules, she is serving a detention.
The defiance the teenager showed towards her parents was outrageous. Defiance is the quality of being defiant. In this case, it means that the teenager was disobeying something that her parents asked of her. To defy is to angrily disobey.
HE took the car in defiance of his father. or he looked into her eyes and saw a flash of defiance.
Despite facing criticism, she showed defiance by sticking to her beliefs and refusing to back down.
She showed a lot of defiance when she stayed out until 12:00 when her parents expected her at 11:00.
The United States broke their relations with Great Britian in defiance to all the unfair taxes that has been imposed
The pirate brandished his sharp cutlass as he boarded the merchant ship.
The word "defiance" is pronounced as dih-fahy-uhns.
You could see the defiance on the plaintiff's face, because Angela was determined to win the case against her brother.