Definition of Obedience

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Obedience

The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control.

Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness.

A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who submit to the authority of the pope.

A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior.

One of the three monastic vows.

The written precept of a superior in a religious order or congregation to a subject.

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Obedience Quotations

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
Theodore Roosevelt

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
Noam Chomsky

The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.
R. Lee Ermey

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Saint Teresa

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
Robert E. Lee

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
Ulysses S. Grant

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Obedience Translations

obedience in German is Gehorsam, Folgsamkeit
obedience in Italian is obbedienza
obedience in Spanish is obediencia
obedience in Swedish is lydnad

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