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oˈbeyance
[f. obey v. + -ance: cf. next.]
Obedience; obeisance, homage.
a1400–50Alexander 5106 To ȝour honoure with obeyaunce me ane I comaunde. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 131 Than shalte thow fynde Frendis wythout Fayle, obeiance in al thynge. 1460J. Capgrave Chron. (Rolls) 171 In vhech letter he mad a new obeiauns to the Kyng. 1921C. E. Mulford Bar-20 Three x. 118 The obeyance of the order might possibly be accepted by the crowd as grounds for justification. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake iii. 540 Obeyance from the townsmen spills felixity by the toun. 1950Tablet 9 Dec. 504/1 Erecting pointed arches in blind obeyance of mechanical efficiency. |