Obeisance \O*bei"sance\, n. [F. ob['e]issance obedience, fr.
ob['e]issant. See Obey, and cf. Obedience, Abaisance.]
1. Obedience. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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2. Deference or homage, or an expression of deference or
respect; a bow; a curtsy.
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Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance unto the king. --1
Kings i. 16.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
obeisance
n 1: bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or
submission or shame [syn: bow, bowing]
2: the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with
respect to another person [syn: obedience] [ant: disobedience]
WordNet (r) 2.0
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "obeisance":
acceptance, acquiescence, allegiance, apple-polishing, ass-kissing,
assent, backscratching, bend, bending the knee, bob, bootlicking,
bow, bowing and scraping, brown-nosing, complaisance, compliance,
consent, cringing, crouch, curtsy, deference, dipping the colors,
duck, fawnery, fawning, fealty, flunkyism, footlicking,
genuflection, groveling, handshaking, homage, honor, inclination,
ingratiation, insinuation, kneeling, kowtow, loyalty, making a leg,
mealymouthedness, nod, nonopposal, nonopposition, nonresistance,
obedience, obsequiousness, parasitism, passiveness, passivity,
presenting arms, prostration, resignation, resignedness, respect,
respectfulness, reverence, salaam, salutation, salute, scrape,
servility, sponging, squat, standing at attention, stoop,
subjection, submission, submissiveness, submittal, supination,
supineness, sycophancy, timeserving, toadeating, toadying,
toadyism, truckling, tufthunting, yielding
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Obeisance
homage or reverence to any one (Gen. 37:7; 43:28).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
bow, bowing, obedience
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