obedience

Roget category 743

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.6. General intersocial volition
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#743. Obedience

noun

obedience — observance etc. 772 — compliance — submission etc. 725 — subjection etc. 749 — nonresistance — passiveness, resignation.
allegiance, loyalty, fealty, homage, deference, devotion — constancy, fidelity.
submissness^†, submissiveness — ductility etc. (softness) 324 — obsequiousness etc. (servility) 886.

verb

be obedient etc. adj. — obey, bear obedience to — submit etc. 725 — comply, answer the helm, come at one's call — do one's bidding, do what one is told, do suit and service — attend to orders, serve faithfully.
follow the lead of, follow to the world's end — serve etc. 746 — play second fiddle.

adjective

obedient — complying, compliant — loyal, faithful, devoted — at one's call, at one's command, at one's orders, at one's beck and call — under beck and call, under control.
restrainable — resigned, passive — submissive etc. 725 — henpecked — pliant etc. (soft) 324.
unresisted^†.

adverb

obediently etc. adj. — in compliance with, in obedience to.

phrase

to hear is to obey — as you please, if you please — your wish is my command — as you wish — no sooner said than done.

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