obedience
- noun
- /əˈbiːdiəns/
- 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
Obeying rules or orders from people in charge
Ability to control your actions and follow rules
Accepting another person's control by obeying them
Following rules or beliefs closely
Being calm and ready to follow instructions from others
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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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.