obedience 
obedi·ence (ō bē′dē əns)
noun
- the state, fact, or an instance of obeying, or a willingness to obey; submission
- Eccles. jurisdiction
Etymology: OFr < L obedientia < obediens
Converse of object
- swear: As members of the General Committee they had sworn blind, unquestioning obedience on a sacred image, a dagger, and a pistol.
- owe: What they require of us is not absolute, but only because we first owe obedience to our heavenly Father.
- render: Christ, as the sinner's Surety, has rendered perfect obedience, and blood.
- enforce: No sanctions are available to the chief for enforcing obedience to his orders, other than calling in agents of the Administration.
- yield: Certainly then we are in duty obliged to yield this obedience of faith.
- demand: It demands obedience only to the God within each of us.
Adjective modifier
- unquestioning: The sisters have a French rather than an English outlook which can be seen in the unquestioning obedience Janie gives to her sisters.
- filial: Generally in accordance with the cultural tenet of filial obedience, he draws the line at obeying a parental demand for vengeance.
- canonical: Over more than 60 years I have heard many clergy swear their oath of canonical obedience.
- unconditional: He could not reconcile his faith in God with unconditional obedience to Hitler.
- passive: The gentleness of their character, and their passive obedience recall the character of the Russian peasant.
- blind: God's existence does not imply ' blind obedience ' .
Modifies a noun
- training: The book also gives details on obedience training for parrots.
- school: Obedience school did no good - Marley was expelled.
- trial: It gets a high score in the obedience trial.
- command: All dog are taught the basic obedience commands of " come, heel, sit, and stay.
Noun used with modifier
- dog: Obedience Dog Training Dog training book that teaches you step by step how to do dog training obedience at home.
Preposition: of
- commandment: The goal of the hierarchy is " greatest likeness and union with god through obedience of the commandments and doing the sacred acts.
- faith: Yet, this " obedience of faith " , ( Rom.
Preposition: unto
- death: I vow to you, and to those you have named to command me, obedience unto death, so help me God.
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavour to keep women in the dark, because the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.
Christianity is really a man's religion: there's not much in it for women except docility, obedience, who-sweeps- the-room-as-for-thy-cause, downcast eyes and death in childbirth. For the men it's better: all power and money and fine robes, the burning of the hereticsöfun, fun, fun!öand the Inquisition fulminating from the pulpit.
It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.
There have been many crimes committed in the name of duty and obedienceömany more than in the name of dissent.
All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law becausetheyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.
Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.
See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?
As I am a woman and women do not count in the State, I refuse to be counted. Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Keep ye the lawöbe swift in all obedienceö Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford. Make ye sure to each his own That he reap where he hath sown; By thepeaceamongourpeopleslet men know weserve the Lord!
I see there's truth in no man, nor obedience But for his own ends.
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