“defiance” in Latin

provocatio: to take arms in answer to a defiance, adversus aliquem provocantem arma capere (Vid: Liv., 4, 8): to bid defiance to anybody, provocare or lacessere aliquem ad pugnam (Vid: To CHALLENGE): to set anybody at defiance, contumacem esse in aliquem: contumacius parere alicui (to oppose a person whom one should obey, in an obstinate, refractory manner) - (confidenter) resistere alicui (to resist a person); confidenter resistentem respondere (to answer with daring resistance): to set anything at defiance, contumacem esse adversus aliquid (e.g., imperia patris); contumaciter spernere (to set at naught in the spirit of defiance; e.g., imperia validiorum); contumaciter resistere alicui rei (e.g. scalpturae, Plin., ; speaking of an extremely hard stone); contemnere aliquid (to despise what it might be thought dangerous to overlook; e.g., omnia jura humana); obviam ire alicui rei: se offerre alicui rei (to encounter it; e.g., periculis): in defiance of anybody, adversus alicujus voluntatem; aliquo invito (against his will); adversus (against; e.g., in defiance of that decree [of the Senate], adversus id senatus consultum); oftenby ablative absolute with neglectus, contemptus; in defiance of my entreaties, contemtis or neglectis precibus meis; Vid: ‘in SPITE of.