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obedience
Part of speech: NounAct or state of yielding to control; submission to authority.
Usage examples "obedience":- Kitty, who, in obedience to a loud call and demand from her aunt, had hastily run to her room with the little travelling- bag which Gertrude had dropped on the staircase, now came back quite out of breath, saying, I did ring the bell twice. - "The Lamplighter", Maria S. Cummins.
- No curiosity, not the slightest interest; nothing but blind obedience. - "The Underdog", F. Hopkinson Smith.