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deference
deferencecourteous respect for another’s opinion, wishes, or judgment: treated with deference
Not to be confused with:difference – disparity; unlikeness; distinction: made a differencedef·er·ence D0091800 (dĕf′ər-əns, dĕf′rəns)n. Submission or courteous respect given to another, often in recognition of authority. See Synonyms at honor.deference (ˈdɛfərəns) n1. submission to or compliance with the will, wishes, etc, of another2. courteous regard; respect[C17: from French déférence; see defer2]def•er•ence (ˈdɛf ər əns)
n. 1. respectful yielding to the opinion, will, etc., of another: in deference to her wishes. 2. respectful or courteous regard. [1640–50; < French déférence < Middle French defer(er) to defer2] Deference after you, my dear Alphonse This popular catch phrase is the first half of the complete expression “After you, my dear Alphonse—no, after you, my dear Gaston.” It first appeared in the Hearst (King Features) comic strip Happy Hooligan written by F. Opper. The strip ran throughout the 1920s and for part of the 1930s. The characters Alphonse and Gaston were two extremely debonair Frenchmen who were so polite that they would jeopardize themselves in times of danger by taking the time to courteously ask each other to go first. Today, when two people go to do the same thing at the same time, one might humorously say to the other, “After you, my dear Alphonse.” cap in hand Submissively; with a deferential air or manner. The phrase alludes to the image of a rustic or servant who self-consciously and humbly takes off his cap and holds it, usually against his chest, while speaking to someone of higher social status. give the wall To yield the safest place; to allow another to walk on the walled side of a street. This expression is derived from an old custom which compelled pedestrians to surrender the safer, inner path bordering a roadway to a person of higher social rank. Modern social etiquette still requires a man to walk on the streetside of a female when walking along a sidewalk. A related expression, take the wall, describes the adamant perambulator who assumes the safer path closer to the wall. The inevitable friction between “givers” and “takers” is discussed by James Boswell in his Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides (1773): In the last age … there were two sets of people, those who gave the wall, and those who took it; the peaceable and the quarrelsome.… Now it is fixed that every man keeps to the right; or, if one is taking the wall, another yields it, and it is never a dispute. strike sail See SUBMISSION. Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  deference - a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard; "his deference to her wishes was very flattering"; "be sure to give my respects to the dean"respectcivility, politeness - the act of showing regard for othershomage, court - respectful deference; "pay court to the emperor"last respects - the act of expressing respect for someone who has died; "he paid his last respects by standing quietly at the graveside"props - proper respect; "I have to give my props to the governor for the way he handled the problem" | | 2. | deference - courteous regard for people's feelings; "in deference to your wishes"; "out of respect for his privacy"respectfulness, respectgood manners, courtesy - a courteous manner | | 3. | deference - a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of otherscomplaisance, compliancy, obligingness, complianceagreeability, agreeableness - a temperamental disposition to be agreeable |
deferencenoun1. respect, regard, consideration, attention, honour, esteem, courtesy, homage, reverence, politeness, civility, veneration, thoughtfulness Out of deference to his feelings, I refrained from commenting.
respect contempt, disregard, disrespect, rudeness, dishonour, lack of respect, irreverence, insolence, impertinence, impudence, discourtesy, incivility, impoliteness2. obedience, yielding, submission, compliance, capitulation, acquiescence, obeisance, complaisance a chain of social command linked by deference to authority
obedience disobedience, insubordination, revolt, noncompliance, nonobservancedeferencenoun1. The quality or state of willingly carrying out the wishes of others:acquiescence, amenability, amenableness, compliance, compliancy, obedience, submission, submissiveness, tractability, tractableness.2. Great respect or high public esteem accorded as a right or as due:homage, honor, obeisance.Translationsdefer2 (diˈfə) – past tense, past participle deˈferred – verb (with to) to act according to the wishes or opinions of another or the orders of authority. I defer to your greater knowledge of the matter. 聽從，遵從 听从，遵从 deference (ˈdefərəns) noun1. willingness to consider the wishes etc of others. He always treats his mother with deference. 聽從 听从2. the act of deferring. 依從 依从in deference to showing respct for. I let him speak first, in deference to his authority. 遵從 遵从deˈferment, deˈferral noun1. delaying; postponement. 延期 延期2. officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service. draft deferment for college students. 暫緩 暂缓deference
deference - an attitude assumed to be based on the belief that there is a natural order of inferiority and superiority in which the inferior recognize the right of the superior to rule.
- the outcome of a power relationship requiring a submissive response from a subordinated actor or group.
Most early work carried out within the framework of definition i was inspired by POLITICAL SCIENCE studies in the tradition of Bagehot (a 19th-century social commentator who, in The English Constitution, ascribed the relative stability of British society to its essentially deferential and, hence, élitist character). A number of voting and attitude studies used the notion of deference, in explanations of working-class VOTING BEHAVIOUR in the 1950s when manual workers’ votes had clearly served to maintain Conservative governments in power. These studies were criticized on both operational and theoretical grounds. Operationally the studies employed crude indicators of ‘deference’ (e.g. McKenzie and Silver, 1968, labelled as ‘deferential’ all respondents who indicated a preference in general terms for a public-school-educated rather than a grammar-school-educated candidate for political office). Theoretically, the studies failed to explore with any precision the social structural and ‘relational’ dimensions of deference. These dimensions are uppermost in sense 2 of deference, e.g. as formulated by H. Newby (1977). Drawing on a variety of earlier anthropological and historical studies, which indicated that deference did not always involve ‘feelings of inferiority’ but arose simply from a relationship of subordination and POWER, Newby was able to demonstrate the existence of deference in this sense in his study of agricultural workers. Thus for Newby deference is a ‘form of social interaction which occurs in situations involving the exercise of traditional authority.’ Deference, then, is better seen as conformity to a set of social expectations, to a ROLE, within a power structure, than merely as an attitude (see also G. Lenski, 1966). See also CLASS IMAGERY. MedicalSeedeferdeference
Synonyms for deferencenoun respectSynonyms- respect
- regard
- consideration
- attention
- honour
- esteem
- courtesy
- homage
- reverence
- politeness
- civility
- veneration
- thoughtfulness
Antonyms- contempt
- disregard
- disrespect
- rudeness
- dishonour
- lack of respect
- irreverence
- insolence
- impertinence
- impudence
- discourtesy
- incivility
- impoliteness
noun obedienceSynonyms- obedience
- yielding
- submission
- compliance
- capitulation
- acquiescence
- obeisance
- complaisance
Antonyms- disobedience
- insubordination
- revolt
- noncompliance
- nonobservance
Synonyms for deferencenoun the quality or state of willingly carrying out the wishes of othersSynonyms- acquiescence
- amenability
- amenableness
- compliance
- compliancy
- obedience
- submission
- submissiveness
- tractability
- tractableness
noun great respect or high public esteem accorded as a right or as dueSynonymsSynonyms for deferencenoun a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regardSynonymsRelated Words- civility
- politeness
- homage
- court
- last respects
- props
noun courteous regard for people's feelingsSynonymsRelated Wordsnoun a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of othersSynonyms- complaisance
- compliancy
- obligingness
- compliance
Related Words- agreeability
- agreeableness
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