About The Word Obedience
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Obedience
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What's The Definition Of Obedience?
[n] behavior intended to please your parents; "their children were never very strong on obedience"; "he went to law school out of respect for his father's wishes"
[n] the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person [n] the trait of being willing to obey Synonyms | Synonyms for Obedience: obeisance | respect Related Terms | Find terms related to Obedience: acceptance | accommodation | accord | accordance | acquiescence | adaptability | adaptation | adaption | adjustment | agreeability | agreeableness | agreement | amenability | assent | complaisance | compliance | conformance | conformation other-direction | conformity | congruity | consent | consistency | conventionality | correspondence | deference | docility | dutifulness | flexibility | harmony | homage | humbleness | humility | keeping | kneeling | line | malleability | meekness | nonopposal | nonopposition | nonresistance | nonviolent resistance | obeisance | observance | orthodoxy | passive resistance | passiveness | passivity | pliancy | Quakerism | quietism | reconcilement | reconciliation | resignation | resignedness | respect | respectfulness | strictness | subjection | submission | submissiveness | submittal | subservience | supineness | tractability | traditionalism | uncomplainingness | uniformity | yielding See Also | compliance | filial duty | flexibility | submission | submissiveness | tractability | tractableness | truckling Obedience In Webster's Dictionary \O*be"di*ence\, n. [F. ob['e]dience, L. obedientia,
oboedientia. See {Obedient}, and cf.{Obeisance}.]
1. The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient;
compliance with that which is required by authority;
subjection to rightful restraint or control.
Government must compel the obedience of individuals.
--Ames.
2. Words or actions denoting submission to authority;
dutifulness. --Shak.
3. (Eccl.)
(a) A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman
Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who
submit to the authority of the pope.
(b) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by
a prior.
(c) One of the three monastic vows. --Shipley.
(d) The written precept of a superior in a religious order
or congregation to a subject.
{Canonical obedience}. See under {Canonical}.
{Passive obedience}. See under {Passive}.
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