obedience : Idioms & Phrases

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Canonical obedience

  • submission to the canons of a canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior cleargy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their supriors.
Webster 1913

obedience plant

  • noun white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch
    arrowroot; Maranta arundinaceae; American arrowroot.
WordNet

Passive obedience

  • (as used by writers on government), obedience or submission of the subject or citizen as a duty in all cases to the existing government.
Webster 1913