Obeying

verb

verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of obey form-of, gerund, participle, present

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observancesubmissive

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"This sees English as a system obeying miles of grammar and sentence structure which have to be learned in detail and applied rigorously."

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