passive obedience
Britishnoun
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unquestioning obedience to authority
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the surrender of a person's will to another person
Example Sentences
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Had they lived in our own time, the charismatic despots of the 20th century would equally have posed, to Montaigne and La Boétie, the threat of passive obedience.
From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2012
The doctrine of the Atonement also has two parts: the active obedience of Christ atoning for man's sense of failure and the passive obedience of Christ to allay man's fear of the consequences .
From Time Magazine Archive
I picked up the first box and turned to see Green still studying me, and I quickly rearranged my face into one of passive obedience.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
But the heart of man is made to reconcile contradictions; and this contradiction is not greater than that between passive obedience and the resistance employed at the Revolution.
From Essays by Hume, David
His natural patrons may have looked askance at his independent attitude, so alien to the passive obedience preached by Fletcher.
From Philip Massinger by Cruickshank, A. H.
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