Defiance
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Middle English (denoting the renunciation of an allegiance or friendship): from Old French, from defier ‘defy’.
wiktionary
From Old French defiance, from défiant (present participle of défier).
etymonline
defiance (n.)
c. 1300, defiaunce, "a challenge to fight, invitation to combat," from Old French desfiance "challenge, declaration of war," from desfiant, present participle of desfier "to challenge, defy, provoke; renounce (a belief), repudiate (a vow, etc.)," from Vulgar Latin *disfidare "renounce one's faith," from Latin dis- "away" (see dis-) + fidus "faithful" (from PIE root *bheidh- "to trust, confide, persuade"). By 1710 as "contempt of opposition or danger."
