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4 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Obedience \O*be"di*ence\, noun [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.
Government must compel the obedience of individuals. --Ames.
2. Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness. --Shak.
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.
{Canonical obedience}. See under {Canonical}.
{Passive obedience}. See under {Passive}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Priory \Pri"o*ry\, noun; pl. {Priories}. [Cf. LL. prioria. See {Prior}, noun] 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.
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.
{Alien priory}, a small religious house dependent on a large monastery in some other country.
Syn: See {Cloister}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
obedience
noun
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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