About The Word Obeisance

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Obeisance

Obeisance Meaning & Definition
Obeisance Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Obeisance?

[n] the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person
[n] bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame

Synonyms | Synonyms for Obeisance: bow | bowing | obedience

Related Terms | Find terms related to Obeisance: acceptance | acquiescence | allegiance | apple-polishing | assent | ass-kissing | backscratching | bend | bending the knee | bob | bootlicking | bow | bowing and scraping | brown-nosing | complaisance | compliance | consent | cringing | crouch | curtsy | deference | dipping the colors | duck | fawnery | fawning | fealty | flunkyism | footlicking | genuflection | groveling | handshaking | homage | honor | inclination | ingratiation | insinuation | kneeling | kowtow | loyalty | making a leg | mealymouthedness | nod | nonopposal | nonopposition | nonresistance | obedience | obsequiousness | parasitism | passiveness | passivity | presenting arms | prostration | resignation | resignedness | respect | respectfulness | reverence | salaam | salutation | salute | scrape | servility | sponging | squat | standing at attention | stoop | subjection | submission | submissiveness | submittal | supination | supineness | sycophancy | timeserving | toadeating | toadying | toadyism | truckling | tufthunting | yielding

See Also | compliance | curtsey | curtsy | genuflection | genuflexion | gesture | kotow | kowtow | motion | salaam | scrape | scraping | submission | truckling

Obeisance In Webster's Dictionary

\O*bei"sance\, n. [F. ob['e]issance obedience, fr. ob['e]issant. See {Obey}, and cf. {Obedience}, {Abaisance}.] 1. Obedience. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. A manifestation of obedience; an expression of difference or respect; homage; a bow; a courtesy. Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance unto the king. --1 Kings i. 16.

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