What is "defiances"

Usage examples of "defiances".

How born or bred, and or nourished upon blows and threats on one side, and retorts and defiances on the other, is not to the purpose.

But after a very few sentences of figurative eloquence, the pink-faced gentleman got from denouncing those who interrupted him in the mob, to exchanging defiances with the gentlemen on the hustings.

His face was masked in blood, and he had taken up his javelin again to menace Fisan, who was spitting out a stream of defiances she could only have learned from the Sisters.

That the game should end in quarrel was quite in order, and sure enough, before very long, Ned Higgs was roaring his defiances to a companion who had seized the bit of tobacco unjustly.