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
Let us, however, observe that this advocate of the people’s supremacy over their sovereign’s was himself the vowed slave to passive obedience, and the indefeasible and absolute rule of the sacerdotal suzerain.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
Both held property in common; both had scattered communities which received guests one from the other; both avoided a light use of oaths; both taught passive obedience to political authority.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
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