obedience
See also: obédience
English
Alternative forms
- oboedience (obsolete, rare)
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman obedience, from Old French obedience (modern French obédience), from Latin oboedientia. Cognate with obeisance.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ə(ʊ)ˈbiːdɪəns/
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Noun
obedience (countable and uncountable, plural obediences)
- The quality of being obedient.
- Obedience is essential in any army.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VIII
- 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.
- Any official position under an abbot's jurisdiction.
Synonyms
- hearsomeness (nonce word)
- submission
Antonyms
Translations
quality of being obedient
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Further reading
- obedience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- obedience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Old French
Etymology
From Latin
Noun
obedience f (oblique plural obediences, nominative singular obedience, nominative plural obediences)
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