Crossword-Solution: OBEISANCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Obeisance | n. | Obedience. |
| Obeisance | n. | A manifestation of obedience; an expression of difference or respect; homage; a bow; a courtesy. |
We have 34 clues for the answer “OBEISANCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Kowtow, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Gesture of reverence | 1 answer |
| Deferential respect | 1 answer |
| Deferential gesture | 1 answer |
| Deep bow, e.g. | 1 answer |
| A kowtow. | 1 answer |
| Bow or curtsy | 2 answers |
| BOW with right palm on forehead | 2 answers |
| Bow, e.g. | 2 answers |
| Salaam | 6 answers |
| A DEEP BOW | 10 answers |
| Curtsy. | 10 answers |
| Curtsy Ballet | 10 answers |
| bowing | 16 answers |
| idolisation | 30 answers |
| Veneration | 31 answers |
| Respects | 36 answers |
| idolatry | 40 answers |
| Apotheosis | 41 answers |
| Kowtow | 44 answers |
| supplication | 44 answers |
| Reverence | 45 answers |
| admiration | 47 answers |
| Amazement | 47 answers |
| Adoration | 50 answers |
| Awe | 51 answers |
| Homage | 54 answers |
| Salute | 56 answers |
| Respect | 58 answers |
| Deference | 58 answers |
| Bow | 60 answers |
| Devotion | 61 answers |
| Worship | 62 answers |
| Regard | 64 answers |
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Sentences with OBEISANCE (5)
Never was there a more beautiful example of how the majesty of age and wisdom may comport with the obeisance and respect enjoined upon it, as from a lower social rank, and inferior order of endowment, towards a higher.
Prior Aymer, therefore, and his character, were well known to our Saxon serfs, who made their rude obeisance, and received his “benedicite, mes filz,” in return.
And she made an obeisance to me and said: 'I was passing through this lonely wilderness and I looked down into the little valley and saw these goats there and the lovely lady lying naked amongst them, and I said I am too old to be afraid of aught; for if she be a goddess come back again from yore agone, she can but make an end of a poor old carline, a gangrel body, who hath no joy of her life now.
Rowland fancied that, as he stood before her, her obeisance was slightly exaggerated, as with an intention of irony; but he smiled philosophically to himself, and reflected, as he passed into the room, that, if she disliked him, he had nothing to reproach himself with.
That will be a cheerful subject!” Mademoiselle Noémie had collected her accessories, and she gave the precious Madonna in charge to her father, who retreated backwards out of sight, holding it at arm’s-length and reiterating his obeisance.
Quotes with OBEISANCE (3)
His Majesty needs a can-I girl anyway. And I'm not it.""A can-I girl?" Andrea frowned. I leaned back. "'Can I fetch your food, Your Majesty? Can I tell you how strong and mighty you are, Your Majesty? Can I pick your fleas, Your Majesty? Can I kiss your ass, Your Majesty? Can I..." It dawned on me that Raphael was sitting very still. Frozen, like a statue, his gaze fixed on the point above my head. "He's standing behind me, isn't he?" Andrea nodded slowly." Technically it sho…
He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This business of worship, of the abnegation of self in the face of the Almighty, was a distraction, a false trail. Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow, clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.
The scientific world of the time was in the midst of a terrible ferment, with discoveries and realizations coming at an unseemly rate. To many in the ranks of the conservative and the devout, the new theories of geology and biology were delivering a series of hammer blows to mankind's self-regard. Geologists in particular seemed to have gone berserk, to have thrown off all sense of proper obeisance to their Maker... Mankind, it seemed, was now suddenly rather — dare one say i…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1954–2020).