different between obeying vs obey
obeying
English
Verb
obeying
- present participle of obey
Anagrams
- biogeny
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obey
English
Etymology
From Middle English obeyen, from Anglo-Norman obeir, obeier et al., Old French obeir, from Latin oboedi? (also ob?di? (“to listen to, harken, usually in extended sense, obey, be subject to, serve”)), from ob- (“before, near”) + audi? (“to hear”). Compare audient. In Latin, ob + audire would have been expected to become Classical Latin *ob?di? (compare in + claud? becoming incl?d?), but it has been theorized that the usual law court associations of the word for obeying encouraged a false archaism from ? to oe, to oboedi? (compare Old Latin oinos ? Classical Latin ?nus).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /o??be?/, /??be?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???be?/, /??be?/
- Rhymes: -e?
- Hyphenation: obey
Verb
obey (third-person singular simple present obeys, present participle obeying, simple past and past participle obeyed)
- (transitive) To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
- (intransitive) To do as one is told.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iv:
- They were all taught by Triton, to obay / To the long raynes, at her commaundement [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iv:
Synonyms
- hearken
Antonyms
- disobey
- defy
- rebel
- resist
- violate (especially rules)
Related terms
- obedience
- obedient
- obeisance
Translations
Further reading
- obey in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- obey in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
References
Anagrams
- e-boy, yebo
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