Monday, May 19, 2014

Obedience: Compliance with an order, request or law or submission to another's authority. 

Related words: Abidance, agree ability, surrender, repression etc. 


Synonyms: compliance, conformity, submission, and subordination. 

 Examples: Obedience means following a command without questioning it.

An obedient soldier, would follow a command, even if  it means he would probably be killed following it.

An obedient child, would go to bed exactly when his mother/father told him/her to do so, without objecting or arguing. 

An obedient student would be quiet, the moment his/her teacher told him to do so, even if he/she really wanted to continue talking across the classroom. 

  

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