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noun

Obeisance n.

Obedience. (Obs.)

Deference or homage, or an expression of deference or respect; a bow; a curtsy. "Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance unto the king."

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Etymology of 'Obeisance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Obeisance" Quotes from Famous Books

... made his reverence to the Queen, who, attired with even more than her usual splendour, and surrounded by those nobles and statesmen whose courage and wisdom have rendered her reign immortal, stood ready to receive the hommage of her subjects. She graciously returned the obeisance of the favourite Earl, and looked alternately at him and at Sussex, as if about to speak, when Bowyer, a man whose spirit could not brook the insult he had so openly received from Leicester, in the discharge ...

— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott

... Frenchman had not perceived it. He accepted the correction with a cordial nod. "Of course—infinite patience. And then a thing like that!" he lifted his hand toward it slowly. It was a kind of courteous salute—the obeisance ...

— Uncle William - The Man Who Was Shif'less • Jennette Lee

... fair lady of Castlewood found the sad, lonely, little occupant of this gallery busy over his great book, which he laid down when he was aware that a stranger was at hand. And, knowing who that person must be, the lad stood up and bowed before her, performing a shy obeisance to the mistress of ...

— The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. • W. M. Thackeray

... the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door— Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door— Perched, and sat, ...

— The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics • Various

... of this humble personage, into the splendidly furnished apartment, his first act is to pull off his tattered straw hat, and make lowly obeisance to the gorgeously attired officer he sees ...

— The Lone Ranche • Captain Mayne Reid

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