叛はん服ぷく

noun

disobedience and obedience; defiance and compliance

A formal, literary noun referring to the paired concepts of rebelling against and submitting to authority. Rare in everyday speech; found mainly in historical or political writing.

• 叛はん服ぷく常つねならぬ家か臣しんに手てを焼やいた。

  He was at his wits' end with retainers whose loyalty was always wavering between rebellion and submission.