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noun. The quality or condition of being obedient.

noun. The act of obeying.

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noun. A sphere of ecclesiastical authority.

noun. A group of people under such authority.

noun. The act or habit of obeying; dutiful compliance with a command, prohibition, or known law and rule prescribed; submission to authority: as, to reduce a refractory person to obedience.

noun. Words or action expressive of reverence or dutifulness; obeisance.

noun. A collective body of those who adhere to some particular authority: as, the king's obedience; specifically, the collective body of those who adhere or yield obedience to an ecclesiastical authority: as, the Roman obedience, or the churches of the Roman obedience (that is, the aggregate of persons or of national churches acknowledging the authority of the Pope).

noun. Eccles.: A written precept or other formal instrument by which a superior in a religious order communicates to one of his dependents any special admonition or instruction.

noun. In Roman Catholic monasteries, any ecclesiastical and official position, with the estate and profits belonging to it, which is subordinate to the abbot's jurisdiction.

noun. The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control.

noun. Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness.

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noun. A following; a body of adherents.

noun. A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior.

noun. One of the three monastic vows.

noun. The written precept of a superior in a religious order or congregation to a subject.

noun. See under Canonical.

noun. See under Passive.

noun. The quality of being obedient.

noun. behavior intended to please your parents

noun. the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person

noun. the trait of being willing to obey

"While the parent must thus take care to establish the _principle of authority_ as the ground of obedience on the part of his children, and must not make their doing what he requires any the less acts of _obedience_, through vainly attempting to diminish the hardship of obeying a command by mingling the influence of reasonings and persuasions with it, he may in other ways do all in his power -- and that will be a great deal -- to make the acts of obedience easy, or, at least, to diminish the difficulty of them and the severity of the trial which they often bring to the child."

disobedience  

canonical obedience  oath of conformity and obedience  passive obedience  

obedient  obey  

filial duty  

disobedience  expedience  

acceptance  acquiescence  agent  allegiance  bow  

Quakerism  acceptance  accommodation  accord  accordance