Meaning of OBEDIENCE
| Pronunciation: | | ow'beedeeuns
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | obeisance, respect |
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| | Antonyms: | | disobedience, disobedience, noncompliance | | |
| | See Also: | | compliance, filial duty, flexibility, submission, submissiveness, tractability, tractableness, truckling | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| Dream Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that you are obedient, symbolizes that you are a good worker who will go far in your occupation.
Dreaming that others are obedient towards you means good fortune and success in your business. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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