Meaning of obeyance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. obedience
   uncountable
2. abeyance
   nonstandard, uncountable

Examples

“Poor fellow! how happy would a companion make⟳ you, to whom you could relate⟳ your battles, bouts, and courtships; but mum is the order⟳, and Jack is used to an implicit obeyance of head-quarter orders.”

“One of the instructions given by experienced aviators to pupils, and for which they insist upon implicit obeyance, is: "If your machine gets more than 30 feet high, or comes closer to the ground than 6 feet, descend at once."”

“The tall soldiers of Nyjord moved in ready obeyance of their commander.”

“The disfiguring wrinkles that make⟳ many necks unsightly may be kept in obeyance by massaging.”

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