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: طاعة (ar) (ṭāʿa) f
• Belarusian: паслухмянасць (be) (pasluxmjánascʹ) f
• Bulgarian: подчинение (bg) (podčinénie) n, покорство (bg) (pokórstvo) n
• Catalan: obediència
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 百依百順 (cmn), 百依百顺 (cmn) (bǎiyībǎishùn), 服從 (cmn), 服从 (cmn) (fúcóng)

• Czech: poslušnost (cs) f
• Dutch: gehoorzaamheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: obeemo
• Estonian: sõnakuulelikkus (et)
• Finnish: kuuliaisuus (fi)
• French: obéissance (fr) f
• Georgian: მორჩილი (ka) (morč’ili)
• German: Gehorsam (de) m, Folgsamkeit (de) f, Gehorsamkeit (de) f
• Greek: υπακοή (el) (ypakoí) f
• Hebrew: צַיְתָנוּת (he) (tzaytanut) f
• Hungarian: engedelmesség (hu)
• Indonesian: kepatuhan
• Irish: umhlaíocht
• Italian: obbedienza (it) f
• Japanese: 従順 (ja) (じゅうじゅん, jūjun)
• Korean: 복종 (ko) (bokjong)
• Kurdish: guhdarî (ku)
• Latvian: paklausība, rātnība (lv)
• Macedonian: послушност (mk) (póslušnost) f

• Mongolian: дуулгавартай байдал (mn) (duulgavartaj bajdal)
• Norwegian: lydighet
• Persian: رامی (fa) (râmi)
• Polish: posłuszeństwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: obediência (pt) f
• Romanian: ascultare
• Russian: послушание (ru) (poslušánije) n, покорность (ru) (pokórnostʹ) f, подчинение (ru) (podčinénije) n, повиновение (ru) (povinovénije) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: покорност (sh) f, послушност (sh) f

  Roman: pokornost (sh) f, poslušnost (sh) f

• Slovak: poslušnosť (sk) f
• Slovene: poslušnost (sl) f
• Spanish: obediencia (es) f
• Swahili: taa (sw)
• Swedish: lydnad (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagsunod
• Telugu: విధేయత (vidhaeyata)
• Thai: การเชื่อฟัง (th) (gaan chêua fang)
• Turkish: itaat (tr)
• Ukrainian: покірність (uk) (pokírnistʹ) f, послушність (uk) (poslúšnistʹ) f, покора (uk) (pokóra) f
• Uyghur: itaet
• Vietnamese: sự nghe lời (vi)
• Welsh: ufudd-dod
• Yiddish: פֿאָלגן (folgn)
• Yoruba: igboran

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Translations to be checked

• Hindi: agya palana, pharmabaradari

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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Old French

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