The dictator enforced obeisance on the people.
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Obeisance
/əˈbiː.səns/
Synonyms for "obeisance" (108 found)
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Noun(11 words)
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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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