how to pronounce obedience

/əˈbiː.di.əns/

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obedience is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of obedience in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… name and an obedience to Her Majesty's …”

meanings of obedience

noun:

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

obedience frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word obedience occurs in english on average 6.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics obedience can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that obedience can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;