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.
He was at his wits' end with retainers whose loyalty was always wavering between rebellion and submission.
Compound of 叛 (rebel) and 服 (submit). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the spelling is conventionally associated with the paired concepts of defiance and compliance.