Definitions for obedience

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obedience o·be·di·ence

Spelling: [oh-bee-dee-uh ns]

IPA: /oʊˈbi di əns/

Obedience is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 222 anagrams from letters in obedience (bcdeeeino).

Definitions for obedience

noun

1. the state or quality of being obedient.
2. the act or practice of obeying; dutiful or submissive compliance:
3. a sphere of authority or jurisdiction, especially ecclesiastical.
4. Chiefly Ecclesiastical. conformity to a monastic rule or the authority of a religious superior, especially on the part of one who has vowed such conformance. the rule or authority that exacts such conformance.

Origin of obedience

1150-1200; Middle English Old French Latin oboedientia. See obedient, -ence

Examples for obedience

A timeless fairytale of true love and magical transformation would be reduced to a boring exercise in memorization and obedience.

"Unless it should be his gracious pleasure to dispense with obedience," replied Artaphernes.

“The first website that really helped me understand what obedience to Allah was,” Loewen wrote.

obedience has regard to the will of a ruler, not to necessity and truth.

Such brutality will likely inspire fear and obedience among the overwhelmingly moderate Sunnis of Iraq, but not enthusiasm.

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience to law.

We knew that obedience was immediate, complete, and without question.

He had acted "in obedience to the clear and imperious call of public obligation."

She had wept only in the struggle of obedience and the renunciation of passion.

“They stressed rules and obedience, Francis is emphatic about mercy,” Berry says.