Obedience

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The quality or condition of being obedient.
  • n. The act of obeying.
  • n. A sphere of ecclesiastical authority.
  • n. A group of people under such authority.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The quality of being obedient.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • n. A following; a body of adherents.
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act or habit of obeying; dutiful compliance with a command, prohibition, or known law and rule prescribed; submission to authority: as, to reduce a refractory person to obedience.
  • n. Words or action expressive of reverence or dutifulness; obeisance.
  • n. A collective body of those who adhere to some particular authority: as, the king's obedience; specifically, the collective body of those who adhere or yield obedience to an ecclesiastical authority: as, the Roman obedience, or the churches of the Roman obedience (that is, the aggregate of persons or of national churches acknowledging the authority of the Pope).
  • n. Eccles.: A written precept or other formal instrument by which a superior in a religious order communicates to one of his dependents any special admonition or instruction.
  • n. In Roman Catholic monasteries, any ecclesiastical and official position, with the estate and profits belonging to it, which is subordinate to the abbot's jurisdiction.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. behavior intended to please your parents
  • 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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