About The Word Obedience

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Obedience

Obedience Meaning & Definition
Obedience Definition And Meaning

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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