obedience (n.)
- acceptance
- accommodation
- accord
- accordance
- acquiescence
- adaptability
- adaptation
- adaption
- adjustment
- agreeability
- agreeableness
- agreement
- amenability
- assent
- complaisance
- compliance
- conformance
- conformity
- congruity
- consent
- consistency
- conventionality
- correspondence
- deference
- docility
- dutifulness
- flexibility
- harmony
- homage
- humbleness
- humility
- keeping
- kneeling
- line
- malleability
- meekness
- nonresistance
- obeisance
- observance
- orthodoxy
- passiveness
- passivity
- pliancy
- quietism
- reconciliation
- resignation
- respect
- respectfulness
- strictness
- subjection
- submission
- submissiveness
- subservience
- tractability
- traditionalism
- uniformity
- yielding
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame
A mechanized automaton.
The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
