obedience
Example Sentences
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"The Pope is the Pope, we owe him a certain amount of deference, but I don't think that Catholicism wants the obedience of cadavers. We are living, thinking persons," he says.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Padrino was one of few close Maduro allies to have remained in the interim government, having sworn "loyalty and absolute obedience" to Rodriguez.
From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026
It is about the importance to society of “obedience to the unenforceable”: “the obedience of a man to that which he cannot be forced to obey.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
In Nazi Germany, for instance, soldiers took a “holy oath” of “unconditional obedience to the Leader of the German Reich and people, Adolf Hitler, supreme commander of the armed forces.”
From Slate • Nov. 21, 2025
A man who valued loyalty and obedience above all other traits had no tool to command it except money.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing obedience
The Mayflower Compact (1620)
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 2
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The Miracle Worker
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