obeisance

Example Sentences

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His “gruff” father had little time for such infantilizing obeisance and would resist as best he could.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

But the demands for obeisance from everyone around him, foreign and domestic, aren't new.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2025

But positioning her as Ethan’s maybe-girlfriend — as if in obeisance to and at the same time defiance of some foundational rule of musical theater — undoes that work.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2024

Yet, at least for the moment, they had no levers; the rank and file in the ministries, bureaucracies, and armed forces ignored their orders and continued to swear obeisance to Yeltsin.

From Slate • Oct. 9, 2023

With a grin and a mock obeisance, Heqet began to arrange logs in the firing box, and Ranofer used his moment of leisure to watch the work going on around him.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw