What's the difference between deferential and obeisant?

Deferential


Definition:

  • (a.) Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So when did audiences become so deferential to a release strategy blatantly motivated by naked financial gain?
  • (2) The testis is packed in ice-cold saline throughout the ischemic interval, and the deferential artery and vein are ligated.
  • (3) Failures to fertilise after epiddidymo-deferential anastomoses therefore do not seem to be due to these two factors.
  • (4) Justice Malala , a political commentator, said: "Culturally, black South Africans are very deferential on the subject of death.
  • (5) Our data indicate that the most common etiology of recurrent varicocele in children seems to be residual proximal (central) collateral veins, pelvic collateral veins (that is cremasteric, deferential and crossover veins) rarely seem to contribute to varicocelectomy failure and there is an inherent but low risk of varicocelectomy failure despite radiological evidence of complete internal spermatic vein interruption.
  • (6) The government claims it has a court warrant under Fisa – but that unconstitutionally sweeping warrant is from a secret court, shielded from effective oversight, almost totally deferential to executive requests.
  • (7) A distinct activity of N-Acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase and beta-galactosidase was observed in the seminal vesicle, the ampulla ductus deferentis and in the prostatic gland.
  • (8) But it's obvious from the start that there are no deferential nods to Egyptian, classical, modernist or postmodernist modes, no reassuring "quotes" like the over-cute pilasters that adorn the extension to London's National Gallery by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.
  • (9) In some senses Boyle's exuberant vision appeared to have been conceived not only in response to the regimented order of Beijing, but also to the joyous but deferential spirit of the recent jubilee.
  • (10) "It will make people a lot less trusting or deferential, perhaps more cynical, but politicians have got to win back people's trust," he said.
  • (11) That is why, among other reasons, it is regrettable that the British approach to China under the coalition has come to have about it something mendicant, cap in hand, and unduly deferential.
  • (12) The foreign secretary rejected suggestions that Britain was being overly deferential to Beijing.
  • (13) On venography, the stop-type varicoceles showed only retrograde blood flow (reflux) in the testicular (internal spermatic) vein, whereas each shunt-type varicocele showed both retrograde and orthograde (i.e., physiologic) venous blood flow: First, reflux appeared in the testicular vein, then orthograde flow occurred in the deferential vein, cremasteric vein, or both.
  • (14) Watch it here: ) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 2.59pm GMT Dianne Feinstein has not garnered much praise in the last year from civil liberties and privacy advocates, many of whom see her as having been too deferential to the intelligence community – of allowing testimony to go unchallenged, of making overblown claims for the efficacy of surveillance programs, of siding with the intelligence chiefs over the public.
  • (15) The Receptaculum ductus deferentis, the Corpus vasculare paracloacalis and the Phallus nonprotrudens in the Cloaca were supplied from the thick Ramus cloacalis of the A. pudenda.
  • (16) It might seem hard to imagine someone who’s usually more deferential to the intelligence community than Sen. Feinstein (other than on this one issue) but the next head of the intelligence committee – which again, is supposed to question the agency – is North Carolina Republican Richard Burr.
  • (17) In those more deferential times, John Junor, the editor of the Sunday Express, was ordered to come to the bar to apologise for claiming that MPs were evading petrol rations.
  • (18) In that more deferential era, Boothby bluffed his way out of it, furiously denied the allegations, and successfully sued the Sunday Mirror for £40,000.
  • (19) In person, the 36-year-old Ayoade is known for being deferential and self-deprecating.
  • (20) Yet it had no influence: over the following 46 years, the divide has grown almost totally obscure, the average pop star growing older, grander and more statesmanlike, the average politician younger, more awestruck and deferential.

Obeisant


Definition:

  • (a.) Ready to obey; reverent; differential; also, servilely submissive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kim can be expected to continue to pay obeisance to North Korea’s original governing concept of juche , self-reliance.
  • (2) He used to sit in the bath shrinking his jeans.” On both sides of the Atlantic, politicians would now offer obeisance to pop stars.
  • (3) Many guests were the Queen's "kissing cousins", which happily dispensed with protocol over who should pay obeisance to whom.
  • (4) It’s a way for them to pay obeisance to the NRA without changing the world as it is.” Texas senator John Cornyn, the author of the Republican alternative to the FBI watch list bill, took issue with Schumer’s characterization, deeming it “incredibly ignorant”.
  • (5) Blair’s obeisance to corporate power enabled the vicious and destructive policies the coalition now pursues .
  • (6) Fox Business Network has been spared having to abide by the Ginsberg demands, partly perhaps because of the strong obeisance shown by senior Republicans towards Roger Ailes, the chairman and CEO of Fox News and Fox Business Network.
  • (7) The industry makes obeisances to the ideals of “diversity” and “representation”, but many at the sharp end of abuse argue that it has so far done little to help them or to learn from their experiences.
  • (8) Both Blair and Brown abased themselves by being so obeisant to the Australian, sorry, American, godfather; but Brown, under the beneficent, and crucial, influence of Ed Balls, resisted the siren voices calling upon him to sign up for the single currency quite independently of Murdoch's propaganda.
  • (9) This obeisance to a symbol has all but destroyed the US anti-war movement – Obama's singular achievement.
  • (10) Not yet, though it has its rituals – attendees of the conferences check their cynicism in at the door; standing ovations at TED seem, at times, like mandatory acts of obeisance rather than spontaneous moments of appreciation – and it's not far off De Botton's description of the Catholic church: "collaborative, multinational, branded and highly disciplined".
  • (11) And note, more lightly, with due obeisance to the cab-rank principle, that Hunt's QC, whose arguments were said by the judge to have a "too-narrow view of the public interest", was Hugh Tomlinson, chairman and silkiest silk of Hacked Off .

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