Obedience
[ə'biːdɪəns] or [ə'bidjəns]
Definition
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person.
(noun.) the trait of being willing to obey.
Checker: Monroe--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control.
(n.) Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior.
(n.) One of the three monastic vows.
(n.) The written precept of a superior in a religious order or congregation to a subject.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Compliance, submission.
Editor: Yvonne
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Submission, compliance, subservience
ANT:Resistance, rebellion, violation, transgression, antagonism, disobedience
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Definition
n. state of being obedient: willingness to obey commands: dutifulness: the collective body of persons subject to any particular authority: a written instruction from the superior of an order to those under him: any official position under an abbot's jurisdiction.—adjs. Obē′dient willing to obey; Obēdien′tial submissive: obligatory.—adv. Obē′diently.—Canonical obedience the obedience as regulated by the canons of an ecclesiastic to another of higher rank; Passive obedience unresisting and unquestioning obedience to authority like that taught by some Anglican divines as due even to faithless and worthless kings like Charles II. and James II.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you render obedience to another, foretells for you a common place, a pleasant but uneventful period of life. If others are obedient to you, it shows that you will command fortune and high esteem.
Typist: Shane
Examples
- In the meantime, the bowels must be severely pinched into obedience. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- When the mass of men emerged from slavish obedience and made democracy inevitable, the taboo entered upon its final illness. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Mamma thought the dear too young to be taught to conquer his prejudices, but Papa believed that it never was too soon to learn obedience. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- At all events Miss Havisham has that impression, and I write in obedience to it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In humble obedience, when the button-gleaming Sloppy entered Mr Boffin said to him: 'Sloppy, my fine fellow, Mr Wegg is Master here. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In obedience to my request Perdita detailed the melancholy circumstances that led to this event. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But there may be no more obedience of a moral sort in one case than in the other. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In the next place our youth must be temperate, and temperance consists in self-control and obedience to authority. Plato. The Republic.
- Methought this was but a poor expedient; but I assured him of my obedience and zeal. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Where the tyranny of the governor removes this interest, it also removes the natural obligation to obedience. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- And in obedience to the doctor's impulse, home they went. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- We determined therefore to go on unless stopped by a force sufficient to compel obedience. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Lydgate said, Very well, with a surly obedience, and thus the discussion ended with his promising Rosamond, and not with her promising him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Obedience is the soul of the army. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This prostration and sweet unrepining obedience exquisitely touched and flattered George Osborne. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typist: Pierce