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What does obedient mean?

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Adjective
  1. Willing to comply with the commands, orders, or instructions of those in authority.
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At the Bema the clergy will sit, among the people, to listen to the Word of God in the obedient attitude of the disciples.
While the mother mourns the loss of her obedient daughter, the daughter longs for recognition of her new thoughts and independent identity.
The first case is quite Orwellian in that the media, especially the state-owned media, serves as governments' obedient mouthpieces.
For nature is the minister of the Divine will not an instrument obedient to the command of man.
If we want this province not to be the poorest of them all, let us try to be obedient, loyal, true and faithful.
The sati is the epitome of the obedient wife, but her burning is irredeemably barbaric.

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