5 example sentences using obedience.
Obedience used in a sentence
Obedience in a sentence as a noun
If people do not show "necessary obedience", they would have to face police or tanks.
He seems to have come up with an interesting form of protest - civil over-obedience.
In fact, rule following and obedience to authority is what enables large scale evil.
Unlike civilian law, the armed forces must place a premium on obedience.
It is authoritarianism, which Wikipedia defines as "a form of government as well as a personality and social trait [that] is characterized by absolute or blind obedience to authority, as against individual freedom and related to the expectation of unquestioning obedience.
Obedience definitions
the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person
See also: obeisance
the trait of being willing to obey
behavior intended to please your parents; "their children were never very strong on obedience"; "he went to law school out of respect for his father's wishes"
See also: respect