passive obedience

noun

1. unquestioning obedience to authority
2. the surrender of a person's will to another person

Example Sentences

He strenuously maintained the duty of passive obedience, not however to the sovereign monarch, but to the sovereign law.

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In order, however, to habituate them to a passive obedience, an ostensible purpose had to be held out.

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There was less grumbling among them and more passive obedience.

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He remembered other verses in the New Testament which could be quoted even more conclusively in favour of this passive obedience.

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She neglects to inform us, however, by what means they had been reduced to this state of passive obedience.

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