Definition of Obediences

1. obedience [n] - See also: obedience

Lexicographical Neighbors of Obediences

obeah doctor
obeah doctors
obeahed
obeahing
obeahism
obeahisms
obeahs
obeast
obeasts
obeche
obeches
obechi
obedible
obedience
obedience plant
obediences (current term)
obedienciaries
obedienciary
obediency
obedient
obedient plant
obediential
obedientiary
obediently
obedt
obeisance
obeisances
obeisancies
obeisancy
obeisant

Literary usage of Obediences

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Beginnings of Modern Europe (1250-1450) by Ephraim Emerton (1917)
"The Demands of cardinals of both obediences were continually trying an s sucn limiting powers for themselves. Their demands were, as we have seen, ..."

2. The pulpit commentary, ed. by H.D.M. Spence and J.S. Exell. nT= edited by Henry Donald M. Spence- Jones (1883)
"These repentances so often urged but never forthcoming, these " returns " and obediences which were to crown with blessing and surround with Divine favour, ..."

3. Proceedings of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge Jurisdiction of Alabama (1922)
"At these feasts, Masonic obediences shall be received with the usual ceremonies ... Foreign Masonic obediences, :n fraternal relation with either of the two ..."

4. Select Memoirs of Port Royal: To which are Appended Tour to Alert, Visit to by Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (1835)
"All the obediences likewise were put into complete disorder. Obedience is the name given to those rooms containing the materials for the different kinds of ..."

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