Explore Obeisance through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like bow or bowing. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Obeisance in a sentence
Obeisance meaning
- Demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude.
- An obedient attitude.
Synonyms of Obeisance
Using Obeisance
- The main meaning on this page is: Demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude. | An obedient attitude.
- Useful related words include: bow, bowing, gesture, motion.
- In the example corpus, obeisance often appears in combinations such as: obeisance to, obeisance at, paid obeisance.
Context around Obeisance
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 13 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Obeisance
- In this selection, "obeisance" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, paid, pay, paying and last stand out and add context to how "obeisance" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and paid obeisance at tilla and and paid obeisance to lord. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "obeisance" sits close to words such as abbeys, abundances and aced, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with obeisance
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Last year, over 4.5 lakh pilgrims paid obeisance at the cave shrine. (13 words)
Earlier, Channi paid obeisance at the Bhagwan Parshuram Temple and the Gurdwara in Model Town. (15 words)
On March 5, Rahul Gandhi will pay obeisance at the Shri Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain. (15 words)
But there remains something trashy and fun about the “Saw” entries, even in their bad-TV police procedural stretches and ponderous obeisance to David Fincher’s “Seven,” the granddaddy of faux-moralistic violence. (33 words)
Srinagar, Aug 17: Charri Mubarak, the silver mace, of Swami Amarnath on Thursday was taken to Ancient ‘Sharika-Bhawani’ Temple in Srinagar to pay obeisance on the occasion of “Shravan Shukla Paksha Pratipada”. (33 words)
Subban then returned to the city and paid an uncomfortably elaborate obeisance to Élise Béliveau, showing that he hadn’t lost his knack for keeping the cameras squarely on himself in all situations. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
But there remains something trashy and fun about the “Saw” entries, even in their bad-TV police procedural stretches and ponderous obeisance to David Fincher’s “Seven,” the granddaddy of faux-moralistic violence.
Nonetheless, Chinese leaders are probably right to suspect that sovereignty – rather than obeisance to more powerful allies – will be the defining theme in twenty-first-century global politics.
Srinagar, Aug 17: Charri Mubarak, the silver mace, of Swami Amarnath on Thursday was taken to Ancient ‘Sharika-Bhawani’ Temple in Srinagar to pay obeisance on the occasion of “Shravan Shukla Paksha Pratipada”.
Then the King saw that certain monks from oppressed castes () paid obeisance to upper caste lay persons of wealth and power.
Earlier, Channi paid obeisance at the Bhagwan Parshuram Temple and the Gurdwara in Model Town.
Hans sang тАШBaba Farid ke DoheтАЩ and paid obeisance at Tilla Baba Farid in the Faridkot district.
Last year, over 4.5 lakh pilgrims paid obeisance at the cave shrine.
On March 5, Rahul Gandhi will pay obeisance at the Shri Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain.
Tens of thousands of men in vibrant attires, henna-dyed beards and bright headgears thronged the Muslim shrine nestled at the base of a mountain to pay their obeisance last week.
After all, neither the parchment on which the promises are written nor the Supreme Court that interprets them has any means to compel our obeisance.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Tuesday watched the live telecast of the Rath Yatra and paid obeisance to Lord Jagannath from his office at Lok Seva Bhawan here.
Devotees thronged temples across Kashmir on the occasion of Mahashivratri on Friday, February 21 holding special prayers and paying obeisance since early morning.
If you don't have the cash to pay proper obeisance to the System--you can go to jail.
In Varanasi’s Laksa Mangaleshwar Mahadev Missir Pokhara temple, social worker Chandresh Narayan Pandey offers masks as obeisance to God and distributes 100 masks to visitors every day.
According to Hindu belief, performing the ‘bali tharpanam’ (paying obeisance to departed souls) ritual for ancestors in the ‘Papanasini’, the stream attached to the forest temple, is sacred.
Subban then returned to the city and paid an uncomfortably elaborate obeisance to Élise Béliveau, showing that he hadn’t lost his knack for keeping the cameras squarely on himself in all situations.
The fervour of Chhath held the Bihar capital in its thrall on Saturday when lakhs of devotees thronged the numerous ghats along the river Ganga here to pay obeisance to the setting sun.
The people feel blessed and blissful by paying obeisance to Mother Mary on her birth anniversary.
According to an officer on yatra duty, 4,379 pilgrims drawn from different parts of the country paid obeisance at cave shrine today.
Amritsar: Filmmaker Farah Khan pays obeisance at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on April 24, 2018.
Common combinations with obeisance
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- obeisance to 12×
- obeisance at 9×
- paid obeisance 8×
- pay obeisance 5×
- paying obeisance 3×