(n.) The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control.
(n.) Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness.
(n.) A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who submit to the authority of the pope.
(n.) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior.
(n.) One of the three monastic vows.
(n.) The written precept of a superior in a religious order or congregation to a subject.
Example Sentences:
(1) Devolution mitigated the authority but also undermined the obedience.
(2) "Dreaming only of sleep and a sip of tea, the exhausted, harassed and dirty convict becomes obedient putty in the hands of the administration, which sees us solely as a free work force.
(3) Obedience to authority has been implicated in hypnotic behaviour from the earliest theories.
(4) Before his speeches on race, he was an obedient, relatively undistinguished servant of the state.
(5) They are those who have chosen a following of Jesus that imitates his life in obedience to the Father, poverty, community life and chastity.
(6) Disillusioned voters saw that even the PSOE offered little more than cowed obedience to Merkel’s demands for more austerity.
(7) The result was that London had an authority to which Scotland had to be obedient.
(8) Some ethical implications for nursing practice are considered in relation to three issues: competence, honesty and obedience.
(9) The lesson is clear: when push comes to shove, obedience to God trumps human decency, to say nothing of obedience to the next commandment, "Thou shalt not kill".
(10) Neither age nor sex differences in obedience rate were found.
(11) Benedict argued that the church will survive by becoming a smaller obedient Church, a just "remnant".
(12) But I want to highlight two specific points about all of this which relate to several of the topics I wrote about in my first week here, as well as some of the resulting reaction to that: First , there are multiple institutions that are intended to safeguard against this ease of inducing blind trust in and obedience to authorities.
(13) We should realise that as in many eastern societies, the existence of developed people with their own independent opinions is not too wide, and there are many statesmen who care only for obedience and full subordination.
(14) I love cats more than dogs, but the reason I love cats is because a cat would never deign to appear on an idiotic digital channel obedience programme.
(15) They had an excessive startle response, sometimes with echolalia, echopraxia, or forced obedience.
(16) But I am forgiven and I love my Lord and must be obedient to Him and the Word of God.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pro and anti-gay marriage protesters converge on Kentucky clerk’s office.
(17) In Kingsley Amis’s The Alteration (1976), the Reformation has not happened and England remains a Roman Catholic country, obedient to the religious rule from Rome of a Yorkshire-born pontiff, who seems to be a caricature of Harold Wilson, British prime minister at the time Amis was writing.
(18) It is still a potentially incendiary work of art, very much concerned with the tipping point between mass obedience and unstoppable uprising.
(19) In this period what the papal encyclicals usually term "atheist communism" has spread a far wider sway over regions of traditional Roman Catholic obedience.
(20) One day the British were there, immovable, complete masters; next day, the Japanese, whom we derided, mocked as short, stunted people with short-sighted squint eyes.” After the second world war when the British were trying to reestablish control: “... the old mechanisms had gone and the old habits of obedience and respect (for the British) had also gone because people had seen them run away (from the Japanese) ... they packed up.
Surrender
Definition:
(v. t.) To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ship.
(v. t.) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage.
(v. t.) To yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; -- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep.
(v. t.) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion.
(v. i.) To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons.
(n.) The act of surrendering; the act of yielding, or resigning one's person, or the possession of something, into the power of another; as, the surrender of a castle to an enemy; the surrender of a right.
(n.) The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion.
(n.) The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.
(n.) The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition.
Example Sentences:
(1) That latter issue is quite controversial in Germany, where the Bundesbank is not happy about surrendering control to the ECB .
(2) Following a first-half surrender, they performed appreciably better in the second period with little cameos hinting at better days to come – eventually.
(3) "They refused and said they preferred fighting and martyrdom to surrendering," he said.
(4) Ukraine map An aide to Ukraine's interior minister posted on Facebook that rebels had begun surrendering in some areas of Kiev's "anti-terrorist operation", and the newspaper Ukrainskaya Pravda reported that some rebels were asking for a corridor to put down their arms and leave areas surrounded by government forces.
(5) Chelsea must summon a response at Atlético Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final on Tuesday, trying to blot out the memory of the lead that was surrendered so wastefully here.
(6) The laws of war allow for rights of surrender, for prisoner of war rights, for a human face to take judgments on collateral damage.
(7) Labour were indeed routed, but the Conservatives surrendered a slightly larger slice of the vote, haemorrhaging four votes for every five they had had in 2010.
(8) On 28 November, the Czechoslovak communist regime surrendered to the people.
(9) If they refuse to do so, make the least show of resistance, or attempt to run away from you, you will fire upon and compell [sic] them to surrender, breaking and destroying the Spears, Clubs, and Waddies of all those you take prisoner.
(10) Nigeria already faces a growing Islamist threat in Boko Haram; its president, Goodluck Jonathan, has said: "We can no longer surrender any part of the globe to extremism."
(11) Chelsea might have added a second long before their rivals surrendered possession sloppily, not for the first time, in central midfield, allowing the visitors to break at pace.
(12) The creation of Albion’s second goal was more artful, even if it started with Özil being pestered into surrendering possession near halfway.
(13) The idea excited both Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill, but was crushed by Marshal Philippe Pétain , who described the plan as a “marriage to a corpse”, since France was about to surrender.
(14) The Labour MP Frank Field , chair of the work and pensions committee, whose role in the MPs’ inquiry into the collapse of BHS has put him into the role of Green’s nemesis, said the businessman appeared willing to lose his reputation rather than “surrender a modest part of his mega-fortune” to aid BHS pensioners.
(15) Recent years have seen the surrender of a number of Mladic's former allies to the war crimes court as Belgrade has come under increasing pressure to co-operate with prosecutors.
(16) The majority of gestational carriers stated that they had considered becoming a traditional surrogate but felt they could not surrender a child that was genetically theirs.
(17) Modern Western Culture regards death as a threatening enemy, whereas the ancients, as is the case in eastern philosophy, recognized both the fight with, and the releasing surrender to death.
(18) Photograph: Multnomah County Sandra Anderson was thrust into the national spotlight during the final 24 hours of the standoff as she refused to surrender and made bold statements during live-streamed phone calls as the FBI closed in on the holdouts .
(19) He said Assange remained in breach of his bail conditions, adding: "Failing to surrender would be a further breach of conditions and he is liable to arrest."
(20) One can sit through these brutally long takes to have some idea of what it must feel like to be pounded into submission each day, and refuse to surrender.