Obeisance

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Obeisance \O*bei"sance\, n. [F. ob['e]issance obedience, fr.
     ob['e]issant. See {Obey}, and cf. {Obedience}, {Abaisance}.]
     1. Obedience. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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     2. Deference or homage, or an expression of deference or


        respect; a bow; a curtsy.
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              Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance unto the king. --1
                                                    Kings i. 16.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  obeisance
       n 1: bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or
            submission or shame [syn: {bow}, {bowing}]
       2: the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with
          respect to another person [syn: {obedience}] [ant: {disobedience}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "obeisance":
     acceptance, acquiescence, allegiance, apple-polishing, ass-kissing,
     assent, backscratching, bend, bending the knee, bob, bootlicking,
     bow, bowing and scraping, brown-nosing, complaisance, compliance,
     consent, cringing, crouch, curtsy, deference, dipping the colors,
     duck, fawnery, fawning, fealty, flunkyism, footlicking,
     genuflection, groveling, handshaking, homage, honor, inclination,
     ingratiation, insinuation, kneeling, kowtow, loyalty, making a leg,
     mealymouthedness, nod, nonopposal, nonopposition, nonresistance,
     obedience, obsequiousness, parasitism, passiveness, passivity,
     presenting arms, prostration, resignation, resignedness, respect,
     respectfulness, reverence, salaam, salutation, salute, scrape,
     servility, sponging, squat, standing at attention, stoop,
     subjection, submission, submissiveness, submittal, supination,
     supineness, sycophancy, timeserving, toadeating, toadying,
     toadyism, truckling, tufthunting, yielding
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Obeisance
     homage or reverence to any one (Gen. 37:7; 43:28).