Deference

Then I'll work on the principle that deference is no substitute for obedience.

Although you are able to win, sometimes yield to a friend, since through deference, sweet friends are preserved.

If Tom senses even the slightest lack of obsequious deference, he explodes into a hail of random and spontaneous insults.

"I am deeply moved that Your Majesty has in all His grace granted me, Your Majesty's most humble servant, permission to appear here before Your Majesty and, in humblest deference to Your Majesty, present my case." "Yes, yes, get to the point! What's this about?"

Not being able to investigate every point of systematical and physiological botany thoroughly himself, he, with amiable deference, often trusted to those who had more particularly studied certain subjects.

Johnny Depp lost a libel case in the notoriously celebrity-friendly United Kingdom, so he chose the only venue that would give him more deference.

The children treated their elders with deference.

By tidying his room, he showed deference to his mother.

Michael in turn benefits from Tom. He loosens up a bit, stops talking so much like one of the bad novels he used to read, and learns to give his intellect a rest once in a while in deference to the emotions.