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obedience

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obedience
noun
children were taught to show their parents obedience:
compliance, acquiescence, tractability, tractableness, amenability;
dutifulness, deference, duty, respect, respectfulness, observance of the law/rules, discipline, biddableness, duteousness;
malleability, pliability, conformity, conformance, conformability, submissiveness, submission, docility, tameness, meekness, passivity, passiveness, subservience, obsequiousness, servility.
antonyms disobedience, rebellion, recalcitrance.
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