obedience

English

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Alternative forms

• obœdience (archaic, rare)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman obedience, from Old French obedience (modern French obédience), from Latin oboedientia.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ə(ʊ)ˈbiːdɪəns/

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Noun

obedience (uncountable)

1. The quality of being obedient.

   Obedience is essential in any army.

   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VIII

     Cautioning Nobs to silence, and he had learned many lessons in the value of obedience since we had entered Caspak, I slunk forward, taking advantage of whatever cover I could find...

Antonyms

• disobedience

Related terms

• obey
• obedient

Translations

quality of being obedient

Albanian: bindje (sq) Arabic: الطاعة (aʈ-ʈāʕa) f. Bosnian: poslušnost (bs) f. Bulgarian: подчинение (bg) (podčinenie) n. Catalan: obediència Chinese: 百依百顺 (bǎiyībǎishùn) Croatian: pokornost f. Czech: poslušnost (cs) f. Dutch: gehoorzaamheid (nl) f. Esperanto: obeemo Estonian: sõnakuulelikkus Finnish: kuuliaisuus French: obéissance (fr) f. Georgian: მორჩილი (morč’ili) German: Gehorsam (de) m. Greek: υπακοή (el) (ypakoí) f. Hebrew: צַיְתָנוּת (tzaytanut) Hindi: agya palana, pharmabaradari Hungarian: engedelmesség (hu) Indonesian: kepatuhan Irish: umhlaíocht Italian: obbedienza (it) f. Japanese: 従順 (じゅうじゅん) (jūjun) Korean: 복종 (bokjong)

Kurdish: guhdarî  (ku) Latvian: paklausība Mongolian: дуулгавартай байдал (mn) (duulgavartay baydal) Norwegian: lydighet Persian: رامی (râmi) Polish: posłuszeństwo n. Portuguese: obediência (pt) f. Romanian: ascultare Russian: послушание (ru) (poslušánije) n., покорность (ru) f. Serbo-Croatian: покорност (pokornost) f. Slovak: poslušnosť f. Spanish: obediencia (es) f. Swahili: taa (sw) Swedish: lydnad c. Tagalog: pagsunod Telugu: విధేయత (vidhaeyata) Thai: การเชื่อฟัง (gaan chêua fang) Turkish: itaat (tr) Ukrainian: покірність (pokírnist’) f. Uyghur: itaet Vietnamese: sự nghe lời Welsh: ufudd-dod Yiddish: פֿאָלגן (folgn) Yoruba: igboran

External links

• obedience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• obedience in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Anglo-Norman

Etymology

From Latin

Noun

obedience f. (oblique plural obediences, nominative singular obedience, nominative plural obediences)

1. obedience
2. authority; influence; power

   Il comaunda par obedience Ke de la femme s’en issist

   He commanded by his authority that it (the evil spirit) come out of her