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Definitions: Obedience |
ObedienceNoun1. The act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person. 2. The trait of being willing to obey. 3. Behavior intended to please your parents; "their children were never very strong on obedience"; "he went to law school out of respect for his father's wishes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "obedience" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream that you render obedience to another, foretells for you a common place, a pleasant but uneventful period of life. If others are obedient to you, it shows that you will command fortune and high esteem. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Obedience is often associated with social dominance and submission.
Some animals can easily be trained to be obedient by employing operant conditioning that places the human being in the role of a dominant animal. Other animals do not respond well to such training. Obedience schools exist to condition dogs into obeying the orders of human owners.
Human beings have been shown to be surprisingly obedient in the presence of perceived legitimate authority figures, as demonstrated by the Milgram experiment in the 1960s. Milgram carried out his experiments to discover how the Nazis had managed to get ordinary people to take part in the mass murder of the Holocaust.The result of the experiment showed that compliance to authority was the norm, not the exception.
Extensive training is given in armies to make soldiers capable of obeying orders in situations where an untrained person would not be willing to follow orders. Soldiers are ordered to do seemingly trivial things like picking the sergeant's hat off the floor, march in just the right position, or align themselves directly, and how demanding the orders are is worked up from there, to the point where when the general tells his soldiers to place themselves into the fray in the midst of gunfire, they will give by this time a knee-jerk obedient response.
Obedience can also include:
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Synonyms: ObedienceSynonyms: obeisance (n), respect (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: disobedience (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Obedience | Verb: be -obedient; Adjective: obey, bear obedience to; submit; comply, answer the helm, come at one's call; do one's bidding, do what one is told, do suit and service; attend to orders, serve faithfully. |
Noun: obedience; observance; compliance; submission; subjection; nonresistance; passiveness, resignation. | |
Adverb: obediently; Adjective: in compliance with, in obedience to. | |
Observance | Noun: observance, performance, compliance, acquiescence, concurrence; obedience; fulfillment, satisfaction, discharge; acquittance, acquittal. |
Subjection | Service; servitude, servitorship; tendence, employ, tutelage, clientship; liability; constraint; oppression; (severity); yoke; (means of restraint); submission; obedience. |
Submission | Noun: submission, yielding; nonresistance; obedience. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Obedience |
| English words defined with "obedience": authoritarian ♦ base ♦ Canonical obedience, correct ♦ dictatorial, discipline, Divine right, Divine right of kings, dweeb ♦ flunkey, flunky ♦ High Anglican Church, High Church ♦ Insubjection ♦ law enforcement, lip service ♦ mean, meanspirited, Misobedience, Morigeration ♦ Nonobedience ♦ obedience plant, Obedienciary, Obediential, Obeyer, overbearing ♦ pharisee, Presence of mind, Promt, punished ♦ religious ♦ Secular canoness, sort out, stooge ♦ To believe on, To bring under, To walk with God ♦ Upward of, Upwards of ♦ yes-man. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "obedience": Act of abjuration, Asparagus ♦ Benedictines ♦ Donkey, Doves ♦ INSTRUCTOR-TRAINER, CANINE SERVICE ♦ Obedience ♦ Republic, righteousness. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "obedience": Misobedience ♦ Obedienciary. (references) |
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Screenplays | I don't believe in blind obedience to the law! (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim) | |
Movie/TV Titles | This Obedience (2000) Obedience (2000) Enema Obedience 2 (1994) Obedience School (1988) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Obedience is a word and concept from which the valiant look for their deliverance. |
Benjamin Franklin | Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. |
Christina Rossetti | Obedience is the fruit of faith. |
Henry Ward Beecher | True obedience is true freedom. |
John Ruskin | Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Obedience alone gives the right to command. |
Theodore Roosevelt | Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. |
Thomas Jefferson | Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. |
| Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | It is one thing to owe honour, respect, gratitude and assistance; another to require an absolute obedience and submission. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | However, in a great number of countries, far from the Russian frontiers and throughout the world, Communist fifth columns are established and work in complete unity and absolute obedience to the directions they receive from the Communist center. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | We have already described the kind of obedience yielded by these two women. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | This spirit of quarrelsome comradeship which he had observed lately in his rival had not seduced Stephen from his habits of quiet obedience. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I stayed three months in this country out of perfect obedience to his Majesty, who was pleased highly to favor me, and made me very honorable offers. |
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Economic History | Cambodia | The regime controlled every aspect of life and reduced everyone to the level of abject obedience through terror. (references) |
Mongolia | Several factors characterized the country during this period: Tthe society was basically nomadic and illiterate; there was no industrial proletariat; the aristocracy and the religious establishment shared the country's wealth; there was widespread popular obedience to traditional authorities; the party lacked grassroots support; and the government had little organization or experience. (references) | |
Human Rights | Japan | In the past, the Japanese Federation of Bar Associations and human rights groups have criticized the prison system, with its emphasis on strict discipline and obedience to numerous rules. (references) |
Worker Rights | Bulgaria | Traffickers also use threats against the women's families and family reputations to ensure obedience. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries, but it appears to have been imperfectly expounded. An example of this faulty exposition is found in the only extant sermon of the pious Bishop Rowley, a characteristic passage from which is here given: "Now righteousness consisteth not merely in a holy state of mind, nor yet in performance of religious rites and obedience to the letter of the law. It is not enough that one be pious and just: one must see to it that others also are in the same state; and to this end compulsion is a proper means. Forasmuch as my injustice may work ill to another, so by his injustice may evil be wrought upon still another, the which it is as manifestly my duty to estop as to forestall mine own tort. Wherefore if I would be righteous I am bound to restrain my neighbor, by force if needful, in all those injurious enterprises from which, through a better disposition and by the help of Heaven, I do myself restrain." |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Relying, then, on the patronage of your good will, I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | The rights of manhood are too often claimed prematurely, in pressing which too far the respect which is due to age and the obedience necessary to a course of study and instruction in every such institution are sometimes lost sight of. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | I repair to the post assigned me not as to one sought, but in obedience to the unsolicited expression of your will, answerable only for a fearless, faithful, and diligent exercise of my best powers. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience to law. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | For ourselves we seek neither praise nor blame, neither gratitude nor obedience. |
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| "Obedience" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.42% of the time. "Obedience" is used about 632 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.42% | 622 | 10,406 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.26% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (common) | 0.32% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 632 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "obedience": Canonical obedience ♦ cow smb. into obedience ♦ enforce obedience upon smb. ♦ implicit obedience ♦ in obedience to ♦ in obedience to your orders ♦ obedience plant ♦ passive obedience ♦ unreasoning obedience. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "obedience": obedience-trained. | |
Ending with "obedience": dog-obedience, non-obedience, passive-obedience. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "obedience"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dëgjueshmëri, bindje (amenability, assurance, assuredness, cogency, conformity, conviction, docility, expostulation, persuasion, politics, suasion, submission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قنوت (devoutness, humility, piety), طاعة (docility, submission, submissiveness, subordination), إمتثال (accept smb.'s authority, conformity, subjugation, submissiveness, subordination), أمر خطي, رضوخ (acquiescence, submission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съобразяване, власт (arm, attribution, authority, authorization, control, disposition, grasp, grip, gripe, hand, helm, hold, jurisdiction, lordship, mastership, mastery, potency, power, reign, rule), авторитет (authority, control, force, hold, potency), покорство (submissiveness), подчинение (conformity, duty, subdual, subjection, subjugation, submission), папство (charge, papacy, people). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 守纪. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | poslušnost (allegiance, submission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | overholdelsesprocent (degree of compliance, obedience level). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gehoorzaamheidsgraad (degree of compliance, obedience level). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فرمانبرداری (Submission), حرف شنوی , اطاعت (Subjugation, Submission), رامی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tottelevaisuus, kuuliaisuus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | obéissance, obédience, soumission. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gehorsam (obedient, obediently, obeisance, obeisant, obeisantly, subdued, submission, submissive), folgsamkeit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπακοή (allegiance, obedientness, obeisance, observance, submissiveness), ευπείθεια (obedientness, tractability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | משמעת (discipline, hearing), משמע (hearing), מרות (authority, discipline, mastery, rule), ציתנות (docility, duteousness, subissiveness, submission), ציות (discipline). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | engedelmesség (amenability, duty, equipage, submission, submissiveness, subservience, subserviency), szófogadás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | ketaatan (adherence, devotion), kepatuhan (loyalty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ubbidienza (duty), obbedienza (allegiance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 遵行 , 服従 (resignation, submission), 悌順 , 孝順 (filial piety), 体 (air, appearance, body, complying with, condition, form, health, image counter, keeping in mind, object, reality, state, style, substance, the body). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たい (against, another intention, band, be crowned with, body, company, complying with, corps, double-mindedness, fickleness, form, ill will, image counter, keeping in mind, malice, object, opposition, party, ratio, reality, receive, schnapper, sea bream, secret purpose, snapper, style, substance, the body, ulterior motive, versus), ふくじゅう (resignation, submission), こうじゅん (armored cruiser, descending-order, filial piety, postulate, promotion of social intercourse), じゅんこう (cruise, cruising, go in order, Imperial tour, patrol, royal progress), ていじゅん. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 복종심. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | biallys (discipline, docility, submission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | obedienceay obediência (allegiance, curtsey, curtsy, homage, obeisant, submission). (various references) supunere (acquiescence, allegiance, manageability, meekness, respect, subjection, submission), ascultare (compliance, listen, listening, submission). (various references) послушание (docility), повиновение (submission). (various references) oigheam, ùmhlachd (humility, obeisance). (various references) poslušnost (docility, malleability, obsequiousness), pokornost (amenability, meekness, submissiveness, subservience). (various references) obediencia (allegiance, compliance). (various references) lydnad. (various references) การเชื่อฟัง. (various references) sadakât (allegiance, constancy, devotion, faith, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty, singleness, troth, trueness, trustiness, truth), itaat (compliance, deference, subjection, submission, subordination, tameness), boyun eğme (bow, indulgence, resignation, subjection, submission, submittal), bağlılık (adherence, adhesion, allegiance, attachment, cementation, cohesion, cohesiveness, constancy, correlation, devotion, faith, faithfulness, fidelity, homage, interdependence, interdependency, loyalty, singleness, subordination, troth). (various references) слухняність (docility, ductility), сини церкви, лоно церкви, послух, послушність, покірність (acquiescence, humility, leniency, lowliness, meekness, non-resistance, passivity, prostration, resignation, submission), покора (non-resistance), паства (charge, congregation). (various references) theo lệnh sự bảo sao nghe vậy, sự vâng lời, sự tuân theo thụ động sự miễn cưỡng tuân theo, sự tuân theo (abidance, conformity, observance), sự tuân lệnh, sự nghe lời, khu vực quyền hành vâng lệnh. (various references) ufudd-dod (himility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | expletionem, expletionis, famulatus, oboedientia, oboedientiae, oboedientiam, obsequi, obsequiis, obsequio, obsequium. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | seraoshem, sraosha. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | gehiersumnes. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | obeissance. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 1, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Di ou elabomen carin kai apostolhn eiV upakohn pistewV en pasin toiV eqnesin uper tou onomatoV autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Per quem accepimus gratiam et apostolatum ad oboediendum fidei in omnibus gentibus pro nomine eius |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Þurh hine and for his naman onfengon we giefe and apostoldom to aweccanne folc fram eall þam hæðenum gemang þæt hi mihton cyman to þære gehyrsumnesse þe cymeð fram geleafan. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Bi whom we han resseyued grace and the office of apostle, to obeie to the feith in alle folkis for his name, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | By whom we have receaved grace and apostleshyppe to bringe all maner hethe people vnto obedience of the fayth that is in his name: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for his name: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name: |
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| Language | Romans Chapter 1, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | pinaagi kang kinsa nadawat namo ang grasya ug ang pagkaapostol aron, nga alang sa kadungganan sa iyang ngalan, ang mga tawo sa tanang kanasuran among madala ngadto sa pagkamasinugtanon sa tinoohan, |
| Croatian | po komu primismo milost i apostolstvo da na slavu imena njegova k poslušnosti vjere privodimo sve pogane |
| Danish | ved hvem vi have fået Nåde og Apostelgerning til at virke Tros-Lydighed iblandt alle Hedningerne for hans Navns Skyld, |
| Finnish | jonka kautta me olemme saaneet armon ja apostolinviran, että syntyisi uskon kuuliaisuus hänen nimeänsä kohtaan kaikissa pakanakansoissa, |
| French | par qui nous avons reçu la grâce et l`apostolat, pour amener en son nom à l`obéissance de la foi tous les païens, |
| German | durch welchen wir haben empfangen Gnade und Apostelamt, unter allen Heiden den Gehorsam des Glaubens aufzurichten unter seinem Namen, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Melalui Dia juga Allah memberikan kepada saya karunia menjadi rasul, supaya saya--untuk menghormati Kristus--membimbing orang-orang dari segala bangsa supaya percaya dan taat. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena Dialah kami sudah beroleh anugerah dan jawatan rasul bagi membawa sekalian orang kafir kepada jalan iman yang taat karena nama-Nya. |
| Italian | Per mezzo di lui abbiamo ricevuto la grazia dell'apostolato per ottenere l'obbedienza alla fede da parte di tutte le genti, a gloria del suo nome; |
| Korean | 그 로 말 미 암 아 우 리 가 은 혜 와 사 도 의 직 분 을 받 아 그 이 름 을 위 하 여 모 든 이 방 인 중 에 서 믿 어 순 종 케 하 나 니 |
| Maori | Nana nei matou i whiwhi ai ki te aroha noa, ki te mahi apotoro, kia ngohengohe ai, kia whakapono ai nga iwi katoa, hei mea mo tona ingoa: |
| Norwegian | ved hvem vi fikk nåde og apostelembede for å virke troens lydighet blandt alle hedningefolkene til hans navns ære, |
| Portuguese | pelo qual recebemos a graça e o apostolado, por amor do seu nome, para a obediência da fé entre todos os gentios, |
| Rumanian | prin care am primit harul wi apostolia, ca sq aducem, pentru Numele Lui, la ascultarea credinyei pe toate Neamurile, |
| Russian | ЮЕТЕЪ лПФПТПЗП НЩ РПМХЮЙМЙ ВМБЗПДБФШ Й БРПУФПМШУФЧП, ЮФПВЩ ЧП ЙНС еЗП РПЛПТСФШ ЧЕТЕ ЧУЕ ОБТПДЩ, |
| Shuar | Ni Túramujai Yus shiir Enentáimturuk nu Shiir Chichaman etserkat tusa akuptukmiayi. Núnisan Ashí nunkanmaya shuar nu chichaman umirkar Jesusa Náarin shiir awajsarat tusa akuptukmiayi. |
| Spanish | Por él recibimos la gracia y el apostolado para la obediencia de la fe a favor de su nombre en todas las naciones, |
| Swahili | Kwa njia yake, mimi nimepewa neema ya kuwa mtume, ili kwa ajili yake niwaongoze watu wa mataifa yote wapate kuamini na kutii. |
| Swedish | genom vilken vi hava fått nåd och apostlaämbete för att, hans namn till ära, upprätta trons lydnad bland alla hednafolk, |
| Uma | Hante wiwi Yesus toe-mi Alata'ala mpowai' -a rasi' bohe na'ongko' -a jadi' suro-na, bona aku' to mpokeni Kareba Lompe' hi tauna hi humalili' dunia', mpotudui' -ra mepangala' pai' mengkoru hi Pue' Yesus, bona hanga' Yesus rapomobohe. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "obedience": obediences. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "obedience": disobedience. (additional references) | |
Words containing "obedience": disobediences. (additional references) | |
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"Obedience" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Obbedire, obedeince, obediance, obediences, obediency, obeiance, obeidience, obidience, obiedence, odedience. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "obedience" (pronounced ōbē"dēuns) |
| 7 | -b ē" d ē u n s | disobedience. |
| 6 | -ē" d ē u n s | expedience. |
| 5 | -d ē u n s | audience, radiance. |
| 4 | -ē u n s | ambiance, ambience, dalliance, deviance, experience, inexperience, invariance, prescience, resilience, subservience, transience, variance. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-e-e-i-n-o" | |
-2 letters: codeine. | |
-3 letters: bendee, bodice, ceboid, codein, coined, debone, edenic, encode. | |
-4 letters: boned, cebid, coden, coned, deice, diene, dobie, donee, niece. | |
-5 letters: been, bend, bene, bice, bide, bind, bine, bode, bond, bone, cede, cedi, cine, cion, code, coed, coin, cone, coni, deco, dene, deni, dice, dine, done, ebon, eide, iced, icon, need, nice, nide, node. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-e-e-i-n-o" | |
+1 letter: obediences. | |
+3 letters: disobedience. | |
+4 letters: decerebration, disobediences. | |
+5 letters: comprehendible, decerebrations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 62 65 64 69 65 6E 63 65 |
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