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-AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (II) Intersocial Volition
Section I. General Intersocial Volition
743. Obedience.
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NOUN: | OBEDIENCE; observance [See Observance]; compliance; submission [See Submission]; subjection [See Subjection]; nonresistance; passiveness, passivity, resignation. ALLEGIANCE, loyalty, fealty, homage, deference, devotion; constancy, fidelity. SUBMISSIVENESS, submissness [obs.]; ductility (softness) [See Softness]; obsequiousness (servility) [See Servility].
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VERB: | BE OBEDIENT &c. adj.; obey, bear obedience to; submit [See Submission]; comply, answer the helm, come at one’s call; do one’s bidding, do what one is told, do suit and service; attend to orders; serve -faithfully, – loyally, – devotedly, – without question; give -loyal, – devoted- service; be resigned to, be submissive to. follow, – the lead of, – to the world’s end; serve [See Servant]; play second fiddle.
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ADJECTIVE: | OBEDIENT, law-abiding, complying, compliant; loyal, faithful, devoted; at one’s -call, – command, – orders, – beck and call; under beck and call, under control. restrainable; resigned, passive; submissive [See Submission]; henpecked; pliant (soft) [See Softness]. unresisted, unresisting.
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ADVERB: | OBEDIENTLY &c. adj.; as you please, if you please; in compliance with, in obedience to; at your -command, – orders, – service.
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QUOTATIONS: | - To hear is to obey.
- Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why.—Tennyson
- Obedience, bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth.—Shelley
- Obedience is the mother of success.—Æschylus
- And art made tonguetied by authority.—Shakespeare
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