Word Meanings - OBEDIENTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In an obedient manner; with obedience.

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• OBEDIENCE
  1. The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control. Government must compel the obedience of individuals. Ames. 2. Words or actions denoting
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• OBEDIENT
  Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey; submissive to restraint, control, or command. And floating straight, obedient to the stream. Shak. The chief his orders gives; the obedient band, With due observance, wait the chief's command.
• OBEDIENTIAL
  According to the rule of obedience. An obediental subjection to the Lord of Nature. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• OBEDIENTLY
  In an obedient manner; with obedience.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• INOBEDIENCE
  Disobedience. Wyclif. Chaucer.
• INOBEDIENT
  Not obedient; disobedient. Chaucer. -- In`o*be"di*ent*ly, adv.
• DISOBEDIENCE
  Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition. He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience. Tillotson.
• DISOBEDIENTLY
  In a disobedient manner.
• NONOBEDIENCE
  Neglect of obedience; failure to obey.
• DISOBEDIENT
  1. Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts. This disobedient spirit in the colonies. Burke.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• UNOBEDIENCE
  Disobedience. Wyclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• UNOBEDIENT
  Disobedient. Milton.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.