obedience
nounEtymology
From Middle English obedience, from Anglo-Norman obedience, from Old French obedience (modern French obédience), from Latin oboedientia. Displaced native Old English hīersumnes (compare modern English hearsomeness). Cognate with obeisance.
- derived from oboedientia
- derived from obedience
- derived from obedience
- inherited from obedience
Definitions
The quality of being obedient.
- Obedience is essential in any army.
- February 24, 1823, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Mr. Edward Everett Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
- Cautioning Nobs to silence, and he had learned many lessons in the value of obedience since we had entered Caspak, I slunk forward, taking advantage of whatever cover I could find...
The collective body of persons subject to any particular authority.
A written instruction from the superior of an order to those under him.
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Any official position under an abbot's jurisdiction.
The neighborhood
- synonymsubmission
- synonymhearsomeness
- antonymdisobedience
- antonymdefiance
- antonymrebellion
- antonymviolation
- antonymcontrol
- antonymdominance
- neighborobedient
- neighborobeisance
- neighborobey
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at obedience. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at obedience. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at obedience
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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