Definition of obedience

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Obedience (n.) Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness.

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Inobedience :: Inobedience (n.) Disobedience.
Demand :: Demand (v. t.) To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience..
Reluctant :: Reluctant (a.) Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance; as, reluctant obedience..
Refractory :: Refractory (a.) Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast..
Authoritative :: Authoritative (a.) Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding..
Covenant :: Covenant (n.) The promises of God as revealed in the Scriptures, conditioned on certain terms on the part of man, as obedience, repentance, faith, etc..
Regular :: Regular (a.) A member of any religious order or community who has taken the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly recognized by the church..
Obeisance :: Obeisance (n.) Obedience.
Guilt :: Guilt (v. t.) The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right..
Disobedience :: Disobedience (n.) Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.
Sin :: Sin (n.) Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission..
Obeyer :: Obeyer (n.) One who yields obedience.
Insubordination :: Insubordination (n.) The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.
Monk :: Monk (n.) A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty..
Suspend :: Suspend (n.) To make to depend; as, God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life..
Religion :: Religion (n.) The outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a god or of gods having power over their destiny, to whom obedience, service, and honor are due; the feeling or expression of human love, fear, or awe of some superhuman and overruling power, whether by profession of belief, by observance of rites and ceremonies, or by the conduct of life; a system of faith and worship; a manifestation of piety; as, ethical religions; monotheistic religions; natural
Proctor :: Proctor (n.) An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.
Nonresistance :: Nonresistance (n.) The principles or practice of a nonresistant; passive obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or violence without opposition..
Discipline :: Discipline (v. t.) To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill.
Child :: Child (n.) A young person of either sex. esp. one between infancy and youth; hence, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young person, as innocence, obedience, trustfulness, limited understanding, etc..
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