"obeisance" meaning in English

See obeisance in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /əˈbiː.səns/, /əʊˈbeɪ.səns/ [UK], /əˈbeɪ.səns/ [UK], /oʊˈbeɪ.səns/ [US], /oʊˈbiː.səns/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-obeisance.wav , En-us-obeisance.ogg Forms: obeisances [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪsəns Etymology: From Middle English obeisaunce (“obedience, obeisance”), from Old French obeïssance, derived from obeïssant (“obedient”), participle of obeïr (“to obey”), from Latin oboedire, obedire; ob- (“to, for”) + audire (“to hear”). Cognate with obedience. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|obeisaunce||obedience, obeisance}} Middle English obeisaunce (“obedience, obeisance”), {{der|en|fro|obeissance|obeïssance}} Old French obeïssance, {{der|en|la|oboedire}} Latin oboedire, {{doublet|en|obedience|notext=1}} obedience Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} obeisance (countable and uncountable, plural obeisances)
  1. Demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude): ওলগ (ülog) (Assamese), реверанс (reverans) [masculine] (Bulgarian), Verbeugung [feminine] (German), pokłon [masculine] (Polish), rewerans [masculine] (Polish), ревера́нс (reveráns) [masculine] (Russian), नमस् (namas) [neuter] (Sanskrit)
    Sense id: en-obeisance-en-noun-0nqx6wKS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Assamese translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Sanskrit translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 65 35 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 73 27 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 77 23 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Assamese translations: 79 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 79 21 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 77 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Sanskrit translations: 79 21 Disambiguation of 'demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude': 75 25
  2. An obedient attitude. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (an obedient attitude): почит (počit) [feminine] (Bulgarian), Ehrerbietung [feminine] (German), hołd [masculine] (Polish), почте́ние (počténije) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-obeisance-en-noun-3M5UOEDa Disambiguation of 'an obedient attitude': 33 67
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: obeisaunce, obeissance, abaisance [obsolete] Derived forms: non-obeisance Related terms: kiss someone's ring

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.