obedience
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- n the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person
- n the trait of being willing to obey
- n behavior intended to please your parents
their children were never very strong on obedience
- Christ sacrificed himself to make amends for sins against God: The Role-Model Theory By his example, Christ inspires people to live in obedience to God's ways.
- Jesuit officials suppressed the publication of a symposium on obedience that raised some critical questions about the society's rules.
- Decades after Stanley Milgrim's famous obedience studies, a professor replicating one of the experiments finds we're still hard-wired to submit to authority.