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obedience
noun as in good behavior; submissiveness
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Such brutality will likely inspire fear and obedience among the overwhelmingly moderate Sunnis of Iraq, but not enthusiasm.
“They stressed rules and obedience, Francis is emphatic about mercy,” Berry says.
“The first website that really helped me understand what obedience to Allah was,” Loewen wrote.
A timeless fairytale of true love and magical transformation would be reduced to a boring exercise in memorization and obedience.
We knew that obedience was immediate, complete, and without question.
And as she hesitated between obedience to one and duty toward the other, her life, her love and future was in the balance.
They threw down their weapons with sullen obedience and the first great step towards the re-conquest of India was taken.
The legal framework of the State and of obedience to the law in which industrial society is set threatens to break asunder.
On the part of the believer, his faith and imperfect obedience, though necessary, are not a condition.
The old dog stuck to her like a burr, and she had not the heart to take up a stick to enforce obedience.
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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to obedience, such as: acquiescence, conformity, deference, orderliness, reverence, and accordance.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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