obeisance
Collocations
4ADJ.
ceaseless
VERB + OBEISANCE
enforced, made
OBEISANCE + NOUN
heart, people
PREP.
on
Definitions
noun
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.
An obedient attitude.
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6In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore; / Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
WiktionaryBut 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 prayin
WiktionaryThe situation in the case of actions which are non-linguistic but similar to performative utterances in that they are the performance of a conventional action (here ritual or ceremonial) is rather lik
WiktionaryThe dictator enforced obeisance on the people.
Tatoeba · #44660The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
Tatoeba · #709418And they answered: Thy servant our father is in health; he is yet living. And bowing themselves, they made obeisance to him.
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