obeisance

Example Sentences

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His “gruff” father had little time for such infantilizing obeisance and would resist as best he could.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

But the demands for obeisance from everyone around him, foreign and domestic, aren't new.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2025

A little further along the corridor, hurrying to pay obeisance, was Rodrygo, another of Pérez’s employees.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2024

At times, in his 2018 memoir, The Briefing, his obeisance verges on Stockholm syndrome.

From Slate • Jun. 29, 2020

They took their hats off and made obeisance and many signs, which, however, I could not understand any more than I could their spoken language....

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker