Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who obeys or yields obedience.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who yields obedience.
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- noun One who
obeys .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The unquestioning obeyer of orders and completer of dangerous missions.
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The same blame of being a judge, when one ought to be an obeyer, of the law is found in Jas 4: 11. 5.
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'Like a true obeyer of the laws, he will be buried in woollen.'
Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767
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I assume by now most of the column’s readers have heard of the abstract release — likely while visiting Pitchfork or encountering a scarf-clad obeyer of Pitchfork — or as it’s described in the trailer above, the first “visual album” from Animal Collective and their video director buddyDanny Perez.
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To encourage the trade in wool, an Act was passed requiring the dead to be buried in woollen, Burke refers to this when he says of Lord Chatham, who was swathed in flannel owing to the gout: ” 'Like a true obeyer of the laws, he will be buried in woollen.'
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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