Usually means: Compliance with authority or command.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word obedience:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. obedience: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. obedience: Merriam-Webster
  3. obedience: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. obedience: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. obedience: Collins English Dictionary
  6. obedience: Vocabulary.com
  7. Obedience, obedience: Wordnik
  8. obedience: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. obedience: Wiktionary
  10. obedience: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. obedience: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. obedience: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Obedience, obedience: Dictionary.com
  14. obedience: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Obedience (album), Obedience (human behavior), Obedience (human behaviour), Obedience: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Obedience: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. obedience: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. obedience: Rhymezone
  19. Obedience: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. obedience: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. obedience: FreeDictionary.org
  22. obedience: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. obedience: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. obedience: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. obedience: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Reactive Attachment Disorder (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Obedience: Catholic Encyclopedia

(Note: See obediences as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The quality of being obedient.
noun:  The collective body of persons subject to any particular authority.
noun:  A written instruction from the superior of an order to those under him.
noun:  Any official position under an abbot's jurisdiction.

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