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obedience

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
obedience/əˈbiːdiəns/

▶noun

1 compliance with an order or law or submission to another's authority.

2 observance of a monastic rule.

– derivatives
obedient adjective,
obediently adverb.

– origin ME: via OFr. from L. oboedientia, from oboedire (see obey).

'obedience' also found in these Oxford entries:

authoritarian - authority - dressage - lady - monk - nun - peremptory - sanction

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"dun us for obedience"
not doubting but by your obedience to my general?
opposite of "blind obedience"
the obedience school

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