The dictator enforced obeisance on the people.
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Obeisance
//əˈbiː.səns//
Synonyms for "obeisance" (86 found)
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12 translations across 7 languages.
Assamese
1 entries- ওলগ noun (demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude)
Bulgarian
2 entries- почит noun (an obedient attitude)
- реверанс noun (demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude)
German
2 entries- Ehrerbietung noun (an obedient attitude)
- Verbeugung noun (demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude)
Polish
3 entries- hołd noun (an obedient attitude)
- pokłon noun (demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude)
- rewerans noun (demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude)
Russian
2 entries- почте́ние noun (an obedient attitude)
- ревера́нс noun (demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude)
Sanskrit
1 entries- नमस् noun (demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude)
Spanish
1 entries- pleitesía noun (demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude)
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7 total sentences available.
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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And 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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And the protesters across the globe appear to be combining smartly offline and online tools, copying each other, even street opponents, feeding on a new era of anger, in which losers even in countries that hold fair elections are not prepared to accept the results and winners demand all too often total obeisance from those vanquished at the polls.
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