obeyance
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4ADJ.
implicit, ready
VERB + OBEYANCE
insist, kept, moved
OBEYANCE + NOUN
commander, head-quarter
PREP.
in, upon
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noun
obedience
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."
noun
abeyance
The disfiguring wrinkles that make many necks unsightly may be kept in obeyance by massaging.
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4Poor 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.
WiktionaryOne 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
WiktionaryThe tall soldiers of Nyjord moved in ready obeyance of their commander.
WiktionaryThe disfiguring wrinkles that make many necks unsightly may be kept in obeyance by massaging.
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