Antonym: disobedience, resistance. Similar words: disobedience, obediently, audience, expedient, ingredient, science, patience, sapience. Meaning: [ə'bɪːdɪəns] n. 1. the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person 2. the trait of being willing to obey 3. behavior intended to please your parents.
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(61) Blind obedience would have resulted in the death of an innocent child.
(62) Under a regime like that, the black parents had to have immediate obedience from children.
(63) But on the two matters on which his own personal obedience was required there was no room for compromise.
(64) Mary accepted the message of the angel with complete trust and obedience.
(65) Meditation for a leap into the unknown At great turning points, life quivers precariously on the tightrope of obedience.
(66) Because of his obedience he had been granted the gift of eternal life.
(67) The miracle of their obedience came with the hammer at dawn.
(68) The limits of that practice of obedience must therefore be constituted by the boundaries of that political morality.
(69) The purpose which lies behind the call to obedience is of first importance.
(70) I knew of no virtues except truthfulness, obedience, self-sacrifice, total abstinence from alcoholic drinks ....
(71) It was essentially a new attempt to revive the Burkeian fallacy of empire through freedom, obedience through liberty.
(72) Catholicism asks diocesan priests and any priest who serves as a pastor for obedience to their bishop.
(73) He is given some fine lines on the claims of the state, which alone preserves the people, to total obedience.
(74) The swinging mannered flights of the great stairway impelled an obedience to propriety.
(75) There is little cooperation in the social sense-there is only obedience, or unilateral respect.
(76) Proceedings for contempt of court are the means by which obedience to orders of the court and adherence to undertakings are ensured.
(77) Safety is a matter of active attention and alert work practices,[http://sentencedict.com/obedience.html] not blind obedience to arbitrary rules.
(78) All obedience worth the name Must be prompt and ready.
(79) These laws impose obligations on citizens, and obedience to these obligations is enforced by the courts.
(80) Within families filial piety was the keystone of morality and it led logically to an absolute obedience to the household head.
(81) In this capacity he was entitled to obedience from the subjects whose welfare he served.
(82) Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. Aeschylus
(83) The dogs are judged on qualities ranging from obedience to the ability to catch criminals without hurting them.
(84) If the woman resisted Weston's voice simply out of obedience to Maleldil, then what was the function of Ransom?
(85) Her head was lowered in obedience, but there was a faint smile on her cherry lips.
(86) No single characterisation or particular formulation of the rule enjoining judicial obedience to statute can supply answers in advance ... Questions 1.
(87) His religion is as much as anything the regression to a past of obedience, disobedience, sin and doom.
(88) One guess is that they work in strict alternation, perhaps in obedience to a monthly nerve signal from the brain.
(89) His father emphasized strenuous effort to achieve goals and total obedience to those in authority, and he ranted about corrupt politicians.
(90) We can maintain with relative certainty that at least some of the mummies owed obedience if not allegiance to the Xiongnu shanyu.
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