different between obedience vs subordination

English

Alternative forms

• oboedience (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman obedience, from Old French obedience (modern French obédience), from Latin oboedientia. Cognate with obeisance.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?(?)?bi?d??ns/

Noun

obedience (countable and uncountable, plural obediences)

1. The quality of being obedient.
   • February 24, 1823, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Mr. Edward Everett

     Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VIII

     Cautioning Nobs to silence, and he had learned many lessons in the value of obedience since we had entered Caspak, I slunk forward, taking advantage of whatever cover I could find...

2. The collective body of persons subject to any particular authority.
3. A written instruction from the superior of an order to those under him.
4. Any official position under an abbot's jurisdiction.

Synonyms

• hearsomeness (nonce word)
• submission

Antonyms

• disobedience, defiance, rebellion (ignoring)
• violation (ignoring, especially rules)
• control, dominance (ruling)

Related terms

• obedient
• obeisance
• obey

Translations

Further reading

• obedience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• obedience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin

Noun

obedience f (oblique plural obediences, nominative singular obedience, nominative plural obediences)

1. obedience
2. authority; influence; power

English

Etymology

From Middle French subordination, from Medieval Latin subordinatio

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??b??d??ne??n?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??b???n??e??n?/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: sub?or?di?na?tion

Noun

subordination (countable and uncountable, plural subordinations)

1. The process of making something subordinate.
2. The process of subordinating.
3. The property of being subordinate; inferiority of rank or position.
4. The quality of being properly obedient to a superior (as a superior officer).

See also

• insubordination

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin subordin?ti?. See also subordonner and -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.b??.di.na.sj??/
• Homophone: subordinations

Noun

subordination f (plural subordinations)

1. subordination.
2. (grammar) use of subclauses

   Antonym: parataxe

Derived terms

• conjonction de subordination
• insubordination

Further reading

• “subordination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).