obsequence
/ˈɒbsɪkw(ə)ns/US in later use. rare
noun
Compliance, complaisance, obsequiousness; deference, servility.
- Apparently unattested in the later 17th and 18th centuries..
Origin
Early 16th century; earliest use found in Receyt Ladie Kateryne. From classical Latin obsequentia compliance, deference (from obsequent-, obsequēns + -ia); compare -ence.
- haute école
- haut monde
- haut-relief
- hav
- havable
- havage
- havala
- havan
- Havana
- Havant
- Havarti
- Havasu, Lake
- Havdalah
- have
- have a ball
- have a bee in one's bonnet
- have a bird
- haveable
- have a bone to pick with someone
- have a bun in the oven
- have a cadenza
- have a care
- have a care (or an eye etc.)
- have a clue
- have a cow