In the meantime, let's not forget that icons are not for passive obeisance.
Joseph saw Tran Van Hieu and his father make their obeisance gravely beside other high-ranking Annamese.
The grail itself was sin, none other than sin itself; what greater obeisance to Love itself than to part with all?
Victory is both a felicitous dip of the head and a glorious obeisance towards the changed life that will surely follow it.
Was she about to make some obeisance to it?
We all make obeisance to it.
When they are successful a bell rings and a mechanical buddha lights up and makes a creaky obeisance.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY►make/pay obeisance (to somebody/something)
They made obeisance to the sultan.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB►make
· Was she about to make some obeisance to it?· We all make obeisance to it.· When they are successful a bell rings and a mechanical buddha lights up and makes a creaky obeisance.· Joseph saw Tran Van Hieu and his father make their obeisance gravely beside other high-ranking Annamese.
respect and obedience to someone or something, often shown by bending your head or the upper part of your bodymake/pay obeisance (to somebody/something) They made obeisance to the sultan.