obedience

IPA: oʊbˈidiʌns

Examples of "obedience" in Sentences

There was an element of subservience, obedience.
The word obedience made me smile through my tears.
There was an element of subservience and obedience.
Also, the obedience section belongs in the teachings.
He uses this control to extort wealth and obedience from the populace.
He declares that his job is to help “win obedience from the Gentiles.”
The word obedience comes from the Latin obedire, which means "listen to."
The readiness of my obedience is the only atonement I can offer for the weakness which calls for its exertion.
Besides the exercises it offers for developing will-power, the other factor in obedience is the capacity to perform the act it becomes necessary to obey.
While the parent must thus take care to establish the _principle of authority_ as the ground of obedience on the part of his children, and must not make their doing what he requires any the less acts of _obedience_, through vainly attempting to diminish the hardship of obeying a command by mingling the influence of reasonings and persuasions with it, he may in other ways do all in his power -- and that will be a great deal -- to make the acts of obedience easy, or, at least, to diminish the difficulty of them and the severity of the trial which they often bring to the child.