noncompliance with an authority as a form of protest against injustice, as by fasting, peaceful demonstration, or refusal to cooperate
The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
A procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly.
A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
A period of reduced economic activity
The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
The act of ceding something back.