Obedience \O*be"di*ence\, n. [F. ob['e]dience, L. obedientia,
oboedientia. See Obedient, and cf. Obeisance.]
1. The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient;
compliance with that which is required by authority;
subjection to rightful restraint or control.
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Government must compel the obedience of individuals.
--Ames.
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2. Words or actions denoting submission to authority;
dutifulness. --Shak.
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3. (Eccl.)
(a) A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman
Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who
submit to the authority of the pope.
(b) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by
a prior.
(c) One of the three monastic vows. --Shipley.
(d) The written precept of a superior in a religious order
or congregation to a subject.
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Canonical obedience. See under Canonical.
Passive obedience. See under Passive.
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Priory \Pri"o*ry\, n.; pl. Priories. [Cf. LL. prioria. See
Prior, n.]
A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; --
sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and
called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2.
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Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the
prior was chosen by the inmates, and governed as
independently as an abbot in an abbey; the other where
the priory was subordinate to an abbey, and the prior
was placed or displaced at the will of the abbot.
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Alien priory, a small religious house dependent on a large
monastery in some other country.
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Syn: See Cloister.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
obedience
n 1: the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with
respect to another person [syn: obeisance] [ant: disobedience]
2: the trait of being willing to obey [ant: disobedience]
3: behavior intended to please your parents; "their children
were never very strong on obedience"; "he went to law
school out of respect for his father's wishes" [syn: respect]
WordNet (r) 2.0
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "obedience":
Quakerism, acceptance, accommodation, accord, accordance,
acquiescence, adaptability, adaptation, adaption, adjustment,
agreeability, agreeableness, agreement, amenability, assent,
complaisance, compliance, conformance,
conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, consent,
consistency, conventionality, correspondence, deference, docility,
dutifulness, flexibility, harmony, homage, humbleness, humility,
keeping, kneeling, line, malleability, meekness, nonopposal,
nonopposition, nonresistance, nonviolent resistance, obeisance,
observance, orthodoxy, passive resistance, passiveness, passivity,
pliancy, quietism, reconcilement, reconciliation, resignation,
resignedness, respect, respectfulness, strictness, subjection,
submission, submissiveness, submittal, subservience, supineness,
tractability, traditionalism, uncomplainingness, uniformity,
yielding
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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