obedience
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2.6
- noun
- /əˈbiːdiəns/
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obediencia
- Children learn the importance of obedience when they follow their parents' rules.
- obedience to authority
- blind obedience
- command obedience
Its attitude towards it is one of actual obedience and respect.
- Its attitude towards it is one of actual obedience and respect.
- They use their blind obedience to their faith for their own benefit.
- To me, success is knowing that you are walking in obedience to God's plan.
- So you walking in obedience is not just for you.
- This armies often being perceived as a bastion of blind obedience to authority.
- And it's no accident that systems that demand obedience demand blind obedience and provide no such exits.
- What you want in your team is a certain level of obedience.
- You have to be obedient, blind obedience.
- And Oh my God, the feeling of when your obedience bears fruit, you know it's from God.
- Trump what's complete obedience from all the underlings, AKA American citizens.
- And until Western medicine recognizes that, don't ask me for my blind obedience.
- It's decades of instilling this, this obedience.
Examples
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In the future, each man will serve the interest of the state with absolute obedience.
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Then what has become of your oath of obedience to the King?
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So you walking in obedience is not just for you.
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Its attitude towards it is one of actual obedience and respect.
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Instead, put all of our focus on obedience, something that we also do to adults.
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To me, success is knowing that you are walking in obedience to God's plan.
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However, it must be made clear that it is not supposed to be blind obedience.
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They expect obedience and respect without ever having earned it.
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It is an order of obedience, and must be obeyed.
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The Athenians offered Darius their obedience if he agreed to this alliance.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
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5.0
Obeying rules or orders from people in charge
165
3.5
Ability to control your actions and follow rules
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4.2
Accepting another person's control by obeying them
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6.3
Following rules or beliefs closely
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7.1
Being calm and ready to follow instructions from others
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6.0
A willingness to accept someone else's authority and follow them
A habit of doing what other people want even if you disagree
Antonyms
Compounds
A Caribbean plant with white flowers whose root makes arrowroot starch used in cooking
How Obedient
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Morphology
Etymology
The word obedience comes from the old Latin parts ob- 'to' and audire 'to hear', and it shares the same root as obey. So it originally meant 'to listen to' someone, which is why obedience means doing what a person in charge asks.