passive obedience

noun

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

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

There was less grumbling among them and more passive obedience.

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

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

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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