What's the difference between obeisance and obeisancy?
Obeisance
Definition:
(n.) Obedience.
(n.) A manifestation of obedience; an expression of difference or respect; homage; a bow; a courtesy.
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 .
Obeisancy
Definition:
(n.) See Obeisance.
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 .