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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.
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Government must compel the obedience of individuals.
--Ames.
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2. Words or actions denoting submission to authority;
dutifulness. --Shak.
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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.
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{Canonical obedience}. See under {Canonical}.

{Passive obedience}. See under {Passive}.
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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.
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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.
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{Alien priory}, a small religious house dependent on a large
monastery in some other country.
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Syn: See {Cloister}.
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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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