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.
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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(91) I followed his commands with blind obedience, never bothering to question what his purpose might have been.
(92) But where servility and not obedience is called for, then the command to obey clearly does not apply.
(93) In a court in which obsequious obedience to the monarch was the rule.
(94) The horse has to be taught to answer the aids correctly by intelligent use of the aids and instant reward of obedience.
(95) Certainly the demand for obedience can be open to abuse.
(96) They include captive monsters goaded into fighting and monsters which have been magically bound by spells of obedience.
(97) Training is good for dogs, because we require obedience from them.
(98) Locks shoot back like informed guards stepping aside out of obedience[sentencedict.com], not willingness.
(99) Their father was authoritarian in the home, insisting on total obedience.
(100) Having recounted this history, Lanfranc mentioned that there were professions of obedience to Canterbury, all testifying to its primatial position.
(101) Only this strictly limited interpretation, intended to affirm obedience as the main point, was fostered by the palace.
(102) His background hardly prepared him for a life of elegant luxury as a film star or obedience to the star system.
(103) As abbot of Bec, Anselm had owed obedience to several superiors whose permission he had sought before accepting the archbishopric.
(104) The changes are about how to discipline and the reasons for requiring obedience to certain rules.
(105) Young children are expected to show obedience to their parents.
(106) The obedience envisaged by Paul is not the obedience of a slave.
(107) Did they tease him about his obedience to his parents, his purity,[www.Sentencedict.com] his allegiance to the holy book?
(108) Behind you are more than twenty years of habit-forming obedience to the house rules - and why not?
(109) The totalitarian political system demands complete obedience to its extensive rules regarding culture, economics, religion, and morality.
(110) I never opposed his will but was prompt in obedience to his orders.
(111) With the coming of a child-centred approach to discipline, the old obsessive concern with orderly habits and unfailing obedience was discarded.
(112) It eliminates all possibilities of revolts and ensures absolute obedience in everything.
(113) No longer will some have power over others: positions of authority and the obedience they command will disappear.
(114) On entering the asylum involuntarily, he voluntarily made vows of poverty, Chastity and Obedience.
(115) He had been warning Matilda, reminding her that she could still threaten Edmund's safety to ensure Isabel's obedience.
(116) To instil such fear that total domination and obedience is guaranteed.
(117) He sent him to Bec to learn obedience from Anselm.
(118) Ultimately you may be able to take part in national obedience competitions.
(119) The object of this sort of propaganda was to produce a Pavlovian state of dumb obedience.
(120) This was the obedience which remained the foundation of his spiritual experience and of his admonitions to others.
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