indiscipline

From French indiscipline, from Middle French [Term?], from Late Latin indisciplina.

indiscipline (usually uncountable, plural indisciplines)

1. Lack of discipline.
   • 1871, Charles Kingsley, At Last, ch. 17:

     [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 Feb. 7, Steven Erlanger, "German Unemployment Is Growing Problem for Schröder," New York Times (retrieved 15 June 2013):

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

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indiscipline f (plural indisciplines)

1. indiscipline

• “indiscipline”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

indiscipline f

1. plural of indisciplina

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