noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an oath of loyalty/allegiance/obedience
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They swore an oath of allegiance to the crown.
give sb loyalty/obedience/respect
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The people were expected to give their leader absolute obedience and loyalty.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
blind
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The covenant will be an affair of the heart, not just blind obedience to the Law.
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Safety is a matter of active attention and alert work practices, not blind obedience to arbitrary rules.
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I followed his commands with blind obedience , never bothering to question what his purpose might have been.
complete
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Mary accepted the message of the angel with complete trust and obedience .
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The totalitarian political system demands complete obedience to its extensive rules regarding culture, economics, religion, and morality.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blind faith/prejudice/obedience etc
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Faith ceases to be laudable when it is blind faith.
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I followed his commands with blind obedience, never bothering to question what his purpose might have been.
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It was not blind faith that drove them to change the world, but a belief very well grounded in reality.
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Memes for blind faith have their own ruthless ways of propagating themselves.
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Safety is a matter of active attention and alert work practices, not blind obedience to arbitrary rules.
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Then you reposed an absolutely blind faith in the Emperor!
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This is true of patriotic and political as well as religious blind faith.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The General demanded absolute obedience from his men.
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Young children are expected to show obedience to their parents.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As abbot of Bec, Anselm had owed obedience to several superiors whose permission he had sought before accepting the archbishopric.
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But on the two matters on which his own personal obedience was required there was no room for compromise.
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How then can we encourage obedience ?
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In a court in which obsequious obedience to the monarch was the rule.
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In this capacity he was entitled to obedience from the subjects whose welfare he served.
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The changes are about how to discipline and the reasons for requiring obedience to certain rules.
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With young children, teaching obedience to rules requires knowledge of three matters: Does he or she know what to do?
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Women were bound to absolute obedience to their Promise Keeper husbands and fathers.