English
Etymology
From Middle English obedience, from Anglo-Norman obedience, from Old French obedience (modern French obédience), from Latin oboedientia. Displaced native Old English hīersumnes (compare modern English hearsomeness). Cognate with obeisance.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ə(ʊ)ˈbiːdɪəns/
- (US) IPA(key): /oʊˈbidiəns/, /əˈbidiəns/
Noun
obedience (countable and uncountable, plural obediences)
- The quality of being obedient.
Obedience is essential in any army.
- February 24, 1823, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Mr. Edward Everett
- Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:Cautioning Nobs to silence, and he had learned many lessons in the value of obedience since we had entered Caspak, I slunk forward, taking advantage of whatever cover I could find...
- The collective body of persons subject to any particular authority.
- A written instruction from the superior of an order to those under him.
- Any official position under an abbot's jurisdiction.
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Translations
quality of being obedient
- Albanian: bindje (sq) f
- Arabic: طَاعَة f (ṭāʕa), إِطَاعَة f (ʔiṭāʕa)
- Egyptian Arabic: طاعة f (ṭāʕa)
- Armenian: հնազանդություն (hy) (hnazandutʻyun)
- Asturian: obediencia f
- Azerbaijani: itaət
- Belarusian: паслухмя́насць f (pasluxmjánascʹ), пако́рнасць f (pakórnascʹ), пако́ра f (pakóra), пако́рлівасць f (pakórlivascʹ)
- Bulgarian: подчине́ние (bg) n (podčinénie), поко́рство (bg) n (pokórstvo)
- Catalan: obediència
- Cherokee: ᎪᎯᏳᎯ (gohiyuhi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 百依百順 / 百依百顺 (zh) (bǎiyībǎishùn), 服從 / 服从 (zh) (fúcóng)
- Czech: poslušnost (cs) f
- Danish: lydighed (da) c
- Dutch: gehoorzaamheid (nl) f
- Esperanto: obeemo
- Estonian: sõnakuulelikkus
- Faroese: lýdni n
- Finnish: kuuliaisuus (fi)
- French: obéissance (fr) f
- Galician: obediencia f
- Georgian: მორჩილება (morčileba)
- German: Gehorsam (de) m, Folgsamkeit (de) f, Gehorsamkeit (de) f
- Greek: υπακοή (el) f (ypakoḯ), πειθαρχία (el) f (peitharchía)
- Ancient: ὑπακοή f (hupakoḗ), πειθαρχία (peitharkhía)
- Hebrew: צַיְתָנוּת f (tsaytanut)
- Hindi: अनुपालन (hi) m (anupālan), आज्ञाकारिता f (ājñākāritā)
- Hungarian: engedelmesség (hu)
- Indonesian: kepatuhan (id)
- Interlingua: obedientia
- Irish: umhlaíocht f
- Italian: obbedienza (it) f
- Japanese: 服従 (ja) (ふくじゅう, fukujū), 恭順 (ja) (きょうじゅん, kyōjun), 順守 (ja) (じゅんしゅ, junshu)
- Kazakh: бағындыру (bağyndyru), бағыну (bağynu)
- Korean: 복종(服從) (ko) (bokjong)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: guhdarî (ku)
- Kyrgyz: бойсунуучулук (ky) (boysunuuculuk)
- Latin: oboedientia f
- Latvian: paklausība f, rātnība f
- Lithuanian: paklusnumas m, paklusimas m
- Macedonian: послушност f (poslušnost)
- Malayalam: അനുസരണം (ml) (anusaraṇaṁ)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: дуулгавар (mn) (duulgavar), дуулгавартай байдал (duulgavartaj bajdal)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lydighet (no) m or f
- Old English: hīersumnes f
- Persian: رامی (fa) (râmi), اطاعت (fa) (etâ'at), فزمانبردای (farmānbordārī)
- Polish: posłuszeństwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: obediência (pt) f
- Romanian: ascultare (ro), supunere (ro)
- Russian: послуша́ние (ru) n (poslušánije), поко́рность (ru) f (pokórnostʹ), подчине́ние (ru) n (podčinénije), повинове́ние (ru) n (povinovénije)
- Sanskrit: अरमति (sa) f (aramati)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: поко́рно̄ст f, послу́шно̄ст f
- Roman: pokórnōst (sh) f, poslúšnōst (sh) f
- Slovak: poslušnosť f
- Slovene: poslušnost f
- Spanish: obediencia (es) f
- Swahili: taa (sw), utii (sw)
- Swedish: lydnad (sv) c
- Tagalog: pagsunod
- Tajik: итоат (itoat), фармонбардорӣ (farmonbardori), итоаткорӣ (itoatkori)
- Telugu: విధేయత (te) (vidhēyata)
- Thai: การเชื่อฟัง (th) (gaan-chʉ̂ʉa-fang)
- Turkish: itaatkârlık, itaatlilik
- Ukrainian: покі́рність f (pokírnistʹ), послу́шність f (poslúšnistʹ), поко́ра f (pokóra), слухня́ність f (sluxnjánistʹ), послухня́ність f (posluxnjánistʹ)
- Urdu: اطاعت f (itā'at)
- Uyghur: ئىتائەت (ita'et)
- Uzbek: boʻysunish, itoat (uz)
- Vietnamese: sự nghe lời (vi)
- Welsh: ufudd-dod
- Yiddish: פֿאָלגן (folgn)
- Yoruba: igboran
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Further reading
- “obedience”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “obedience”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Old French
Etymology
From Latin.
Noun
obedience oblique singular, f (oblique plural obediences, nominative singular obedience, nominative plural obediences)
- obedience
- authority; influence; power
Il comaunda par obedience Ke de la femme s’en issist- He commanded by his authority that it (the evil spirit) come out of her