passive obedience
unquestioning obedience to authority
the surrender of a person's will to another person
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How to use passive obedience in a sentence
He strenuously maintained the duty of passive obedience, not however to the sovereign monarch, but to the sovereign law.
The English Church in the Eighteenth Century | Charles J. Abbey and John H. OvertonIn order, however, to habituate them to a passive obedience, an ostensible purpose had to be held out.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne SueThere was less grumbling among them and more passive obedience.
That Lass O' Lowrie's | Frances Hodgson BurnettHe remembered other verses in the New Testament which could be quoted even more conclusively in favour of this passive obedience.
Hyacinth | George A. BirminghamShe neglects to inform us, however, by what means they had been reduced to this state of passive obedience.
The Desert World | Arthur Mangin
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