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vow of obedience
4. The vow of submission to proper authority taken by a member of a religious order; the action or fact of keeping this vow. Now chiefly in vow of obedience.
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?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 5 Nan ancre..ne schal..makien professiun..buten þreo þinges, þet beoð, obedience, chastete, & studestaðeluestninge.
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 929 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 133 Ake, In obedience, ich ov hote þat ȝe þare-neiȝ ne beon ȝif ich am i-brouȝt to Iuggement, ake þat ȝe raȝur fleon.
c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 398 (MED) Freris also by Lucifers pride hyen homself..For þof a prest or bischop do nevere so treuly þo offis þat God bad prestis do, ȝitte þei seyn he is more holy if he cum to hor newe feyned religioun and obediense.
a1450 Ordination of Nuns (Vesp.) in E. A. Kock Rule St. Benet (1902) 149 Þe priores sal tak hir handes betwene hir handes & kis hir, & swa sal scho mak hir obedience, & swa forth til al þe couent.
a1500 Rule Minoresses in W. W. Seton Two 15th Cent. Franciscan Rules (1914) 82 (MED) Eche womman..Lyue alle dayes in obediens & chastite.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Riiiiv To..kepe their .iiii. essencial vowes the better, that is the vowe of chastite, the vowe of obedience, the vowe of wylful pouertye, and the vowe of perpetuall inclusion.
1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss ii. 94 Is this the tye Of all strickt order, and the holiest Of all societies, the three vowed people For Pouerty, Obedience, Chastity.
1670 Earl of Clarendon Tracts (1727) 176 It is a vow of obedience.., as the upper and highest wrung of the ladder, to the pope.
1769 F. Brooke Hist. Emily Montague III. cxlix. 114 They should take the vow of obedience, but not of celibacy.
1799 W. Scott tr. J. W. von Goethe Goetz of Berlichingen i. 13 Poverty, chastity, obedience——three vows, each of which singly is dreadful to humanity——united, insupportable.
1864 E. R. Charles Chrons. Schonberg-Cotta Family viii. 132 Have I not been commanded this journey by my superiors, so that in accordance with my vow of obedience, my one duty at present is to travel.
a1891 H. Melville Billy Budd xviii, in Wks. (1924) XIII. 79 Not with more of self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty.
1946 J. Hersey Father Walter P. Morse in Life Sketches (1991) 124 Joining the order was quite a step for a man of twenty-five, for he was obliged to take irrevocable vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
1994 16th Cent. Jrnl. 25 793 The founding charter stipulated that the nuns would take..the solemn vows of poverty, chastity and obedience that made their membership in the convent irrevocable.
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