indiscipline

English

Etymology

From French indiscipline, from Middle French , from Late Latin indisciplina.

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Noun

indiscipline (usually uncountable, plural indisciplines)

1. Lack of discipline.
   • 1871, Charles Kingsley, “Homeward Bound”, in At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. , volume II, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 313:

     [O]ur delay, and other things which happened, were proofs—and I was told not uncommon ones—of that carelessness, unreadiness, and general indiscipline of French arrangements, which has helped to bring about, since then, an utter ruin.

   • 2002 February 7, Steven Erlanger, “German unemployment is growing problem for [Gerhard] Schröder”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-02-04:

     Germany feared that the fiscal indiscipline of countries like Italy and Greece could make the new euro currency unstable.

French

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Noun

indiscipline f (plural indisciplines)

1. indiscipline

Further reading

• “indiscipline”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Italian

Noun

indiscipline f

1. plural of indisciplina

Spanish

Verb

indiscipline

1. only used in me indiscipline, first-person singular present subjunctive of indisciplinarse
2. only used in se indiscipline, third-person singular present subjunctive of indisciplinarse
3. only used in se ... indiscipline, syntactic variant of indisciplínese, third-person singular imperative of indisciplinarse