obedience

== English == === Alternative forms === oboedience (obsolete, rare) === Etymology === From Middle English obedience, from Anglo-Norman obedience, from Old French obedience (modern French obédience), from Latin oboedientia. Displaced native Old English hīersumnes (compare modern English hearsomeness). Cognate with obeisance. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ə(ʊ)ˈbiːdɪəns/ (US) IPA(key): /oʊˈbidiəns/, /əˈbidiəns/ === Noun === obedience (countable and uncountable, plural obediences) The quality of being obedient. February 24, 1823, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Mr. Edward Everett Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. The collective body of persons subject to any particular authority. A written instruction from the superior of an order to those under him. Any official position under an abbot's jurisdiction. ==== Synonyms ==== submission, hearsomeness (nonce word) ==== Antonyms ==== disobedience, defiance, rebellion (ignoring) violation (ignoring, especially rules) control, dominance (ruling) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== obedient obeisance obey ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== “obedience”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “obedience”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == Old French == === Etymology === From Latin. === Noun === obedience oblique singular, f (oblique plural obediences, nominative singular obedience, nominative plural obediences) obedience authority; influence; power