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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Obedience has 3 senses
- obedience(n = noun.act) obeisance - the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person; Array is a kind of compliance, submission
- obedience(n = noun.attribute) Array - the trait of being willing to obey; Array is a kind of flexibility, tractability, tractableness
- obedience(n = noun.act) respect - 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" is a kind of filial duty
has particulars: truckling
Antonym: disobedience
Derived forms adjective obedient1, verb obey1
has particulars: submissiveness
Antonym: disobedience
Derived forms adjective obedient1, verb obey1
Derived form adjective obedient1
CIDE DICTIONARY
- The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control. [1913 Webster]"Government must compel the obedience of individuals." [1913 Webster]
- Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Obedience, n.
1 obeying as an act or practice or quality.
2 submission to another's rule or authority.
3 compliance with a law or command.
4 Eccl. a compliance with a monastic rule. b a sphere of authority (the Roman obedience).
1 obeying as an act or practice or quality.
2 submission to another's rule or authority.
3 compliance with a law or command.
4 Eccl. a compliance with a monastic rule. b a sphere of authority (the Roman obedience).
Idiom
in obedience to actuated by or in accordance with.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. L obedientia (as OBEY)
THESAURUS
Obedience
Quakerism, 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, quietism, reconcilement, reconciliation, resignation, resignedness, respect, respectfulness, strictness, subjection, submission, submissiveness, submittal, subservience, supineness, tractability, traditionalism, uncomplainingness, uniformity, yieldingROGET THESAURUS
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Submission
N submission, yielding, nonresistance, obedience, surrender, cession, capitulation, resignation, backdown, obeisance, homage, kneeling, genuflexion, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow, prostration, surrendering, submissive, resigned, crouching, downtrodden, down on one's marrow bones, on one's bended knee, unresistant, unresisting, nonresisting, pliant, undefended, untenable, indefensible, humble, have it your own way, it can't be helped, amen, da locum melioribus, tempori parendum.Obedience
N obedience, observance, compliance, submission, subjection, nonresistance, passiveness, resignation, allegiance, loyalty, fealty, homage, deference, devotion, constancy, fidelity, submissness, submissiveness, ductility, obsequiousness, obedient, complying, compliant, loyal, faithful, devoted, at one's call, at one's command, at one's orders, at one's beck and call, under beck and call, under control, restrainable, resigned, passive, submissive, henpecked, pliant, unresisted, obediently, in compliance with, in obedience to, to hear is to obey, as you please, if you please, your wish is my command, as you wish, no sooner said than done.Subjection
N subjection, dependence, dependency, subordination, thrall, thralldom, thraldom, enthrallment, subjugation, bondage, serfdom, feudalism, feudality, vassalage, villenage, slavery, enslavement, involuntary servitude, conquest, service, servitude, servitorship, tendence, employ, tutelage, clientship, liability, constraint, oppression, yoke, submission, obedience, subject, dependent, subordinate, feudal, feudatory, in subjection to, under control, in leading strings, in harness, subjected, enslaved, constrained, downtrodden, overborne, overwhelmed, under the lash, on the hip, led by the nose, henpecked, the puppet of, the sport of, the plaything of, under one's orders, under one's command, under one's thumb, a slave to, at the mercy of, in the power of, in the hands of, in the clutches of, at the feet of, at one's beck and call, liable, parasitical, stipendiary, under, slaves - in a land of light and law.Observance
N observance, performance, compliance, acquiescence, concurrence, obedience, fulfillment, satisfaction, discharge, acquittance, acquittal, adhesion, acknowledgment, fidelity, exact, observance, observant, faithful, true, loyal, honorable, true as the dial to the sun, true as the needle to the pole, punctual, punctilious, literal, as good as one's word, faithfully, ignoscito saepe alteri nunquam tibi, tempori parendum, to God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
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