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obeyance

noun

Etymology

Misspelling or alteration of abeyance, by association with obey.

  1. derived from oboediō
  2. derived from obeir
  3. derived from obeir
  4. inherited from obeyen
  5. suffixed as obeyance — “obey + ance”

Definitions

  1. obedience

    • Poor fellow! how happy would a companion make you, to whom you could relate your battles, bouts, and courtships; but mum is the order, and Jack is used to an implicit obeyance of head-quarter orders.
    • One of the instructions given by experienced aviators to pupils, and for which they insist upon implicit obeyance, is: "If your machine gets more than 30 feet high, or comes closer to the ground than 6 feet, descend at once."
    • The tall soldiers of Nyjord moved in ready obeyance of their commander.

  2. abeyance

    • The disfiguring wrinkles that make many necks unsightly may be kept in obeyance by massaging.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA