Clues for the word "OBEDIENCE"
We've had 22 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 21 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on April 05, 2024.
Definition of obedience
- n. - The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control.
- n. - Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness.
- n. - A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who submit to the authority of the pope.
- n. - A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior.
- n. - One of the three monastic vows.
- n. - The written precept of a superior in a religious order or congregation to a subject.
Referring Clues
- Bygone wedding vow
- Fido's field of study?
- Kind of school
- Certain school's objective
- Part of a boxer's training
- Focus at a boxer's school?
- Compliant state
- Willingness to mind
- Compliance
- What boxers are expected to learn
- Submission
- Doing what someone tells you
- As soon as guards happen to fade away, that's submission
- Dutifulness
- Live and die in former conformity
- Respect for bed that is entered into once
- Submission to authority
- Dutifulness demonstrated by old boy and girl at northern church
- Duty and honour serve in German church
- Dog school focus
- Kind of school for dogs
- Dog owner's hope ... or a cat owner's pipe dream?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - April 05, 2024
- New York Times - April 16, 2023
- Mirror Daily - January 16, 2023
- Guardian Cryptic - April 13, 2017
- Netword - October 08, 2016
- Guardian Speedy - September 25, 2016
- Evening Standard Easy - July 15, 2016
- Netword - June 11, 2016
- Guardian Quick - March 09, 2013
- LA Times - March 13, 2011
- Guardian Quick - June 08, 2009
- Netword - September 20, 2008
- Netword - April 06, 2008
- Guardian Quiptic - February 04, 2008
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 08, 2006
- Guardian Everyman - April 30, 2006
- Guardian Cryptic - December 03, 2004
- Washington Post - February 29, 2004
- Guardian Prize - September 01, 2001
- Washington Post - May 30, 2001
- New York Times - July 03, 1998