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ˈobsequence Now rare.
[ad. L. obsequentia, f. obsequent-em obsequent.]
Compliance, complaisance, obsequiousness.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1153 More force of law, than voluntary obsequence. 1622Calderwood Course Conformity 47 Insinuating them by flatterie and obsequence into the princes favour. 1884D. G. Mitchell Bound Together ii. 43 The monarch was charmed..not less by the splendor of his work than by his grave courtly obsequience [sic]. |