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obeisance n. 敬礼,鞠躬,顿首 敬礼,鞠躬,顿首 obeisance n 1: bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting [ synonym: { bow}, { bowing}, { obeisance}] 2: the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person [ synonym: { obedience}, { obeisance}] [ ant: { disobedience}, { noncompliance}] Obeisance \ O* bei" sance\, n. [ F. ob[' e] issance obedience, fr. ob[' e] issant. See { Obey}, and cf. { Obedience}, { Abaisance}.] 1. Obedience. [ Obs.] -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Deference or homage, or an expression of deference or respect; a bow; a curtsy. [ 1913 Webster PJC] Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance unto the king. -- 1 Kings i. 16. [ 1913 Webster] 80 Moby Thesaurus words for " obeisance": acceptance, acquiescence, allegiance, apple- polishing, ass- kissing, assent, backscratching, bend, bending the knee, bob, bootlicking, bow, bowing and scraping, brown- nosing, complaisance, compliance, consent, cringing, crouch, curtsy, deference, dipping the colors, duck, fawnery, fawning, fealty, flunkyism, footlicking, genuflection, groveling, handshaking, homage, honor, inclination, ingratiation, insinuation, kneeling, kowtow, loyalty, making a leg, mealymouthedness, nod, nonopposal, nonopposition, nonresistance, obedience, obsequiousness, parasitism, passiveness, passivity, presenting arms, prostration, resignation, resignedness, respect, respectfulness, reverence, salaam, salutation, salute, scrape, servility, sponging, squat, standing at attention, stoop, subjection, submission, submissiveness, submittal, supination, supineness, sycophancy, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyism, truckling, tufthunting, yielding |
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