Meaning of OBEISANCE
| Pronunciation: | | ow'beysuns
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | bow, bowing, obedience |
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| | Antonyms: | | disobedience, noncompliance | | |
| | See Also: | | compliance, curtsey, curtsy, genuflection, genuflexion, gesture, kotow, kowtow, motion, salaam, scrape, scraping, submission, truckling | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | homage or reverence to any one (Gen. 37:7; 43:28). |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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