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单词 passive obedience
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passive obedience
passive obedience n. (a) Theology the submission of Christ to the will of his Father, leading to his suffering and death on the Cross (contrasted with active obedience n. (a) at active adj. and n. Compounds 2); (b) willing, uncomplaining, or unresisting submission to the will of another, spec. to God; (c) compliance with commands irrespective of their nature (cf. non-resistance n. 1).
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passive obediencea1602
society > authority > subjection > obedience > submissiveness > [noun]
yieldingc1425
submission?a1439
passive obediencea1602
submissiveness1608
submissness1613
yieldingness1613
yokeablenessa1638
yieldableness1645
passivity1681
a1602 W. Perkins Cloud of Faithfull Witnesses (1607) 155 His Passiue obedience was his passion, or suffering of whatsoeuer the Iustice of God had inflicted on man for sinne.
1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 122 All passive obedience doth properly consist in patient suffering such things as are enjoyned by lawfull authority.
1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon vi. 231 Whether a power to reform abuses and inconveniences be necessary to a King, to which all his Subjects owe at least passive obedience.
1712 G. Berkeley (title) Passive Obedience; or, the Christian Doctrine of not resisting the Supreme Power, proved and vindicated, upon the Principles of the Law of Nature.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xi. 192 The doctrine of passive obedience had now crept from the homilies into the statute-book.
1871 A. C. Fraser Life & Lett. G. Berkeley ii. 49 Non-resistance and passive obedience were then associated with Jacobitism.
2002 Progressive (Nexis) 1 May 14 Other workers are also susceptible to the harsh Calvinistic ideology that accompanied welfare reform and dictates passive obedience in the workplace.
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