deference

The children treated their elders with deference.

By tidying his room, he showed deference to his mother.

Michael in turn benefits from Tom. He loosens up a bit, stops talking so much like one of the bad novels he used to read, and learns to give his intellect a rest once in a while in deference to the em

Then I'll work on the principle that deference is no substitute for obedience.

Although you are able to win, sometimes yield to a friend, since through deference, sweet friends are preserved.

If Tom senses even the slightest lack of obsequious deference, he explodes into a hail of random and spontaneous insults.