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obedience 音标拼音: [ob'idiəns] n. 服从,顺从,忠实 服从,顺从,忠实 obedience n 1: the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person [ synonym: { obedience}, { obeisance}] [ ant: { disobedience}, { noncompliance}] 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" [ synonym: { obedience}, { respect}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Government must compel the obedience of individuals. -- Ames. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] { Canonical obedience}. See under { Canonical}. { Passive obedience}. See under { Passive}. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] { Alien priory}, a small religious house dependent on a large monastery in some other country. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: See { Cloister}. [ 1913 Webster] 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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