obeisance

UK /əʊˈbeɪ.səns/ US /oʊˈbeɪ.səns/
noun 2

Definitions

noun

1

Demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude.

In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore; / Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;

But looking upwards in the blaze of the moon I suddenly saw colossi sitting near, and towering up and blotting out the stars and filling the night with blackness; and at those idols’ feet I saw praying and making obeisance kings and the days that are and all times and all cities and all nations and all their gods.

2

An obedient attitude.

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